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HOW  TO  CONTROL  FATE  THROUGH 
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THREE  CORRESPONDENCE  COURSES  of 
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Six  Soul  Culture  Essays. 

THOUGHT  AS  POWER. 

TELEPATHY: — THE  MISSING  LINK. 

THE  ULTIMATE  OF  POWER. 

LIFE: — ITS  POTENTIAL  POWER. 

VIBRATION. 

THE  VICTORY  OVER  DEATH. 


HENRY  HARRISON  BROWN, 

Author  of  "How  to  Control  Fate  through  Suggestion,"  "Not 
Hypnotism,  but  Suggestion,"  and  Editor  of  NOW. 


The  Soul  looketh  steadily  forward,  creating  a  world  be- 
fore her,  leaving  worlds  behind  her.  The  web  of  events 
is  the  flowing  robe  in  which  she  is  clothed. — Emerson. 

The  potential  of  Life  is  Immortality  and  that  without 
pain,  sorrow,  disease,  or  death. — Henry  Harrison  Brown. 


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To  MY  READERS  OF  2002. 

What  to  me  is  Perception,  to  you  is  History. 

The  Century  between  us  will  shape  into  the  sense-life  of 

the  race  that  which  now  has  form  only  in  Thought. 

In  that  eternal  world  where  we  are  one,  I  greet  you. 

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FORE- 


These  essays  are  TRUTH  to  me.  They  wrote 
themselves.  I  was  but  the  instrument  through 
which  thought  crystallized.  They  -welled  up  from 
a  full  heart  and  were  moist  with  tears  of  joy. 
When  the  significance  of  the  Greatest  of  all  human 
discoveries  dawned  upon  me,  like  Saul  of  Tarsus, 
I  was  stricken  with  the  magnitude  of  the  Percep- 
tion and  for  several  days  lived  as  one  in  a  trance. 
The  sub-conscious  life  was  the  only  reality.  I  lived 
that  which  I  have  here  written. 
When  the  Thought  crystallized  into  the  title  of 
this  book,  like  the  Greek  of  old  I  cried,  "Eureka," 
and  paced  my  room  in  rapture.  I  clairvoyantly 
perceived  the  wonderful  possibilities  that  lay^  in 
the  Discovery.  Like  a  mighty  spiritual  wind, 
such  as  the  old  Hebrew  seers  felt  when  they  proph- 
esied, was  this  perception  of  fulfillment. 
"The  hour  now  is  when  men  shall  no  more  worship 
God  either  in  temple  or  on  mount,  but  shall  know 
themselves  almighty  and  deathless,"  was  the  Voice 
within  me. 

I  saw  man  as  Conscious  King  of  himself,  and  "I 
AM  POWER"  was  the  Affirmation  then  realized. 
In  this  spirit  was  the  first  essay  written.  Day  by 
day,  since  that  September  morning,  have  I  entered 
more  and  more  into  the  Realization  of  the  Vision 
then  vouchsafed  me.  Each  succeeding  essay  has 
only  increased  the  responsibility  which  I,  as  Henry 
Harrison  Brown,  have  felt,  as  the  instrument  for 
that  "which  has  been  from  all  eternity,"  as  it  finds 


Q  ^  *~< 
y  ?j  ». 


6  MAN'S  GREATEST 

expression  in  and  through  me.  I  am  possessed 
with  the  desire  and  purpose  to  keep  my  personal- 
ity behind  the  curtain  and  to  have  Truth  for  which 
I  stand  recognized  by  the  world.  This  desire  is 
now  overruled  by  this  same  Perception  and  Power, 
and  I  must  say  this  much  that  the  centuries  to 
come  may  find  it  as  History.  I  must  also  add: — 
Truth  and  I  are  one! 

Since  Truth  is  eternal,  this  book  is  eternal.  The 
paper  on  which  it  is  written  may  perish  but  the 
Thought  vibrations,  never.  This  generation  may 
pass  from  sight  but  MAN  will  live  forever.  This 
generation  may  have  individuals  who  realize  Truth 
and  never  die.  Generations  to  come  will  all  so 
realize  and  earth  will  be  redeemed  from  the  results 
of  undeveloped  human  powers.  The  Potential  of 
Life  is  IMMORTALITY,  and  that  without  pain, 
sorrow,  disease  or  death. 

I  know  of  110  other  attempt  in  literature  to  demon- 
strate from  the  position  of  modern  science  the 
Unity  of  Soul  and  matter  under  the  thought  of  a 
Present  Immortality.  It  being  a  fact  that 
that  the  thought  of  these  essays  is  in 
accord  with  that  of  advanced  thinkers  along 
many  lines,  I  have  prefaced  each  one  with  numer- 
ous quotations.  Limited  in  my  library  advantages, 
I  have  given  what  I  found.  But  finding  so  many 
in  my  limited  range  of  authorities,  what  must  there 
be  to  him  who  has  the  range  of  the  large  libraries 
denied,  by  location,  to  me? 

I  have  only  carried  their  principles  and  their  deduc- 
tions farther  and  have  done  this  through  the  scien- 
tific spirit  and  method,  basing  all  my  deductions 
upon  observed  phenomena.  If  my  position  is 
false,  the  physics  of  the  world  is  also  false. 
The  phenomena  of  Telepathy,  Levitation,  and 
Clairvoyance  are  as  familiar  tome  as  that  of  chem- 
istry to  the  professors  of  that  science.  I  have  been 


DISCOVERY.  ...  7 

healed  by  Thought.  I  heal  by  Thought.  I  send 
and  receive  messages  by  the  wireless  telegraphy 
of  Mind.  By  this  method  I  am  in  communication 
with  those  individualities  with  whom  I  can  estab- 
lish sympathetic  vibration,  whether  they  are  in 
the  sphere  we  call  the  sense-life  or  in  that  we  call 
spirit-life,  for  these  spheres  are  one  to  the  unfolded 
Soul. 

By  means  of  my  Psychometric  faculties  I  read  the 
inner  life  of  man  or  rock,  and  know  only  Soul,  as 
the  maker  and  builder  of  all  external  life.  Know- 
ing this  from  over  thirty  years'  experience,  I  were 
false  to  Self,  to  Truth,  to  my  fellowman  did  I  not 
write  that  which  I  know,  that  it  may  be  a  stimu- 
lant to  others,  helping  them  to  realize  that  they 
are  not  body,  but  Mind,  and  are  deathless.  I  can 
only  affirm:  that  which  I  am,  all  men  are.  The  cen- 
tury that  now  is  will  see  all  this  phenomena  the 
common  life  of  the  advanced  races.  Telepathy  is 
the  promise  of  that  unfoldment  of  latent  power 
which  means  for  earth  the  fulfillment  of  all  that 
poet,  priest,  and  seer  have  foreseen.  Feeling  this, 
I  have  only  let  Truth  have  its  way  through  me. 
It  has  clothed  itself  in  the  best  robes  of  language 
it  lound  in  the  storehouses  of  my  brain. 
Written  first  for  the  columns  of  my  little  journal, 
NOW,  these  essays,  perhaps,  have  the  crudities  of 
the  haste  of  newspaper  preparation,  but  better  so 
than  that  I  take  the  fire  of  inspiration  from  them 
by  the  cooling  process  of  criticism.  So,  oblivious 
of  critic,  I  put  them  forth  in  this  form  for  those 
\vho  can  feel  the  Truth  in  them.  I  thus  awaken 
those  vibrations  in  the  Thought  ocean,  in  which 
all  humanity  is  engulfed,  which  will  find  other 
brains  fitted  by  special  training  for  their  manifes- 
tion  along  similar  and  co-ordinate  lines. 
Thus  this  little  book,  the  child  of  my  inspiration 
and  love,  is  set  a  Bethel-stone  to  mark  the  begin- 


8  MAN'S  GREATEST 

ning  of  this  Psychic  Era  that  ushers  in  the  Millen- 
nial dawn  of  Perfect  Manhood. 
In  the  Faith  that  Love  and  Truth  will  soon  lead 
Man  to  this  victory,  I  am 

HENRY  HARRISON  BROWN. 

"NOW"  Office,  San  Francisco,  April,  1902. 


Ring,  bells,  in  unreal  d  steeples, 
The  joy  of  unborn  peoples. 
Sound  trumpets  far  off  blown, 
Your  triumph  is  my  own. 

Parcel  and  part  of  all, 
I  keep  the  festival; 
Fore-reach  the  good  to  be, 
And  share  the  victory. 

— WHITTIER. 


I. 


THOUGHHT  AS  POWER. 

An  Explanation  and  a  Prophecy* 

Recently,  at  my  class,  we  tried  an  experiment,  old 
to  me,  and  yet  then  and  there  it  burst  upon  my 
comprehension  that  in  this  experiment  lay  Power. 
Later,  I  saw  that  this  discovery  of  Power  was 
man's  greatest  discovery;  that  more  lay  in  it  for 
the  good  of  the  race  than  in  any  previous  discov- 
ery. This  revelation  grows  upon  me,  and  no  surer 
has  any  scientist  been  of  the  worth  of  his  discovery 
than  I  am  of  this.  Here  is  the  experiment: — 

Five  persons  were  concerned  in  it.  One  sat  on  a  stool.  Two 
stood  at  the  side  of  the  person  at  the  knees,  two  behind  the 
shoulders,  all  breathed  in  unison,  and  all  raised  their  hands 
together,  palms  pressing  together,  all  except  index  fingers  clos- 
ed. As  their  hands  came  up  the  fourth  time,  the  fingers  were 
placed  under  arms  and  knees  and  the  person  was  lifted  without 
any  sense  of  weight.  This  was  also  done  with  a  person  lying 
down,  and  with  a  table.  With  a  friend,  I  have  lifted  a  heavy 
stone  thus.  I  am  sure  that  a  few  persons,  by  practice  in  breath- 
ing and  moving  in  unison  can  in  this  way  practically  annihilate, 
In  any  given  case,  the  law  of  gravity. 

I  call  attention  to  this  experiment  because  I  am 
sure  that  it  means  more  for  the  welfare  and  develop- 
ment  of  the  race  than  Franklin's  discovery,  with  his  kite, 
of  the  identity  of  lightning  with  the  electricity  in 
the  Lyden  jar, — means  more  than  the  discovery  of 
the  North  pole  will  mean,— more  than  the  inven- 
tion of  the  spinning  jenny,  the  invention  of  the 
steam  engine  or  the  electric  motor;  than  the  dis- 
covery of  ether,  or  the  marvels  of  modern  surgery 
have  meant  in  civilization.  This  is  a  tremendous 


10  MAN'S  GREATEST 

claim.  But  from  years  of  study  of  the  significance 
of  certain  allied  mental  and  psychical  phenomena, 
I  am  free  to  make  the  claim  and  to  prophesy  that 
FROM  THIS  EXPERIMENT  WILL  COME  THE 
GREATEST  SCIENTIFIC  APPLICATION  OF 
POWER  THE  WORLD  HAS  EVER  KNOWN.  It 
may  be  that  in  it  we  have  a  key  to  a  lost  art,  that 
of  the  Egyptians  in  transporting  their  huge  stones 
and  the  silent  building  of  Solomon's  Temple.  I  can 
no  more  tell  what  it  has  for  the  future  than  Watts, 
when  he  toyed  with  steam  and  found  it  force, 
could  foresee  the  engine  of  today;  or  the  chemist 
who  first  found  that  there  was  explosive  power  in 
nitre,  charcoal  and  sulphur,could  foresee  the  use  of 
it  in  modern  battleship;  or  he  who  first  found  pow- 
er in  electricity  could  foresee  the  present  wireless 
telegraphy.  POWER  is  what  a  man  is  seeking. 
Found,  it  is  to  be  applied.  The  first  is  Discovery; 
the  next  is  Invention.  These  two  make  human 
progress. 

The  discoverer  of  power  is  the  world's  benefactor. 
To  apply  this  is  Progress.  Every  new  discovery 
of  power  marks  an  epoch  in  human  history.  Fire, 
wind,  water,  steed,  steam,  caloric,  electricity,  have 
each  marked  great  epochs  of  civilization.  Of  all  the 
past  discoveries,  the  greatest  was  that  of  fire. 
Through  fire,  man  has  been  enabled  to  conquer  the 
world  of  external  vibrations,  known  as  the  world 
of  matter.  Imagine  a  world  where  fire  should  be 
unknown.  Suppose  the  secret  of  fire  was  lost  to- 
day beyond  recovery.  What  death  and  desolation 
would  follow.  Fire  was  the  beginning  of  human 
development.  From  it,  all  our  science,  art,  and 
religion  have  sprung.  Fire  is  Power.  Up  to  that 
time,  savage  man  had  known  only  the  power  of 
his  own  brawn.  Club  and  stone  were  the  instru- 
ments through  which  Power  within  made  itself 
manifest.  Ages  have  passed.  Power  has  been  de- 


DISCOVERY.  ...  11 

veloped;  Power  has  been  controlled;  Power  has 
been  discovered;  Power  has  been  harnessed. 
Through  the  mastery  and  application  of  Power, 
man  has  conquered  all  the  Without.  He  has  used 
external  Power.  Is  there  other  Power?  What  is 
the  Power  that  has  thus  found,  developed,  and 
harnessed,  this  external  Power?  Where  does  it 
dwell?  It  is  the  Power  IN  man.  It  is  the  Power 
of  Ideas.  This  is  recognized.  Ideas  rule  the  world. 
But  that  they  are  any  kin  to  these  external  forces 
has  scarcely  been  conceived,  much  less  believed,  un- 
til the  last  century.  The  greatest  gift  that  the 
nineteenth  century  gave  the  twentieth,  was  the 
demonstration  that  Thought  is  aFoimofEnergy. 
This  is  the  greatest  gift  of  all  the  centuries.  It  is 
Man's  Greatest  Discovery  and  marks  the  beginning 
of  the  Psychic  Era: — the  Dawn  of  the  Millennium. 
Today  it  is  known,  among  thinkers  and  investiga- 
tors, that  Thought  is  Power.  It  is  THE  Power 
that  controls  all  other  Power. 
THOUGHT  is  POWER!  THOUGHT  IS  POWER! 
This  is  the  greatest  discovery, — that  of  fire  comes 
next.  This  is  destined  to  make  as  great  an  ad- 
vance in  human  progress  as  fire  made  in  the  ages 
past.  Thought  will  be  consciously  used  as  Power. 
Its  possibilities  are  unlimited.  No  imagination 
can  picture  what  man  and  his  world  will  be  after 
a  century,  ten  centuries,  of  the  conscious  use  of 
Thought.  Thought  is  as  tamable  as  lightning,  as 
easily  controlled  as  steam,  and  as  unerring  as 
gravity. 

Let  me  quote  from  one  of  the  great  books  of  the 
last  century  upon  the  other  great  discovery  of  that 
century,— Prof.  E.  L.  Youmans'  work  upon  "The 
Conservation  and  Correlation  of  Force, ' '  published 
in  1864.  In  speaking  of  the  law  of  Conservation 
of  Force,  Prof.  Youmans  says:— 
Thus  the  law  characterized  by  Farady  as  the  highest  in  phys- 


12  MAN'S  GREATEST 

ical  science  which  our  faculties  enable  us  to  perceive,  has  a  far 
more  extended  sway;  it  might  well  be  proclaimed  the  highest 
law  of  all  sciences;  the  most  far-reaching  principle  that  adven- 
turous reason  has  discovered  in  the  Universe.  Its  stupendous 
reach  spans  all  orders  of  existence.  Not  only  does  it  govern 
the  movements  of  the  heavenly  bodies,  but  it  presides  over  the 
genesis  of  constellation;  not  only  does  it  control  those  radiant 
floods  of  power  that  fill  eternal  spaces,  bathing,  illumining, 
and  vivifying,  our  planet,  but  it  rules  the  actions  and  relations 
of  men  and  regulates  the  march  of  terrestrial  affairs.  Nor  is  its 
domain  limited  to  physical  phenomena;  it  prevails  equally  in 
the  world  of  mind,  controlling  all  the  faculties  and  processes  of 
thought  and  feeling.  Star  and  nerve  tissue  are  parts  of  the 
same  system — stella  and  nervous  forces  are  correlated.  Nay, 
more!  Sensation  awakens  thought  and  kindles  emotion,  so 
this  wondrous  dynamic  chain  binds  into  living  Unity  the  realms 
of  matter  and  mind  through  limitless  amplitudes  of  space. 

Thus  early  did  a  far-reaching  scientist  perceive  the 
fact  that  has  since  been  demonstrated: — that  the 
realm  of  Life  is  one  and  that  it  is  all  Force.  Tel- 
epathy has  verified  this  statement.  It  is  the  link 
connecting  the  hitherto  divided  parts  of  life,  called 
matter  and  mind,  into  one,  and  making  of  Nature 
a  Unity.  No  fact  in  all  the  history  of  human  life  is 
more  potent  than  this.  Telepathy  is  the  missing 
link  in  science.  Mind  and  Matter  are  by  it  weo, 
never  to  be  divorced,  and  henceforth  we  shall  deal 
with  Mind  as  we  have  with  matter,  and  with 
thought  as  we  have  with  electricity.  We  shall 
learn  the  power,  the  laws,  of  thought,  and  shall 
harness  it  to  Human  Will  and  Desire.  Thought 
as  Force  means  the  Redemption  of  the  world  from 
all  old  conditions.  Almighty  Power  lies  in  thought, 
and,  unlike  all  other  power,  it  cannot  be  monop- 
olized. 

It  is  open  alike  to  all  men.  Its  only  limit  is  human 
ignorance.  As  the  Without  has  been  made  to  serve 
man's  will  through  knowledge,  so  now  will  the 
Within  become  subject  to  him.  The  mighty  realm 
of  Mind  will  become  the  theatre  of  human  activity 
and  all  its  power  be  consciously  used  to  bless. 


DISCOVERY.  ...  13 

All  this  lies  in  that  simple  experiment.  What  is 
the  power  that  lifts  the  person?  It  is  that  which 
lifts  our  feet  and  hands;  which  is  subject  to  our 
will  in  all  our  conduct:— THOUGHT.  It  is  the 
first  demonstration  we  have  that  Thought  is 
not  only  Force  to  move  through  space  without 
visible  conductors,  but  that* Thought  is  also  Force 
to  lift  ponderable  bodies.  We  fill  up  with  Thought 
by  unison  in  breathing  and  movement.  The  same 
thought  fills  the  five  persons  as  five  lamps  are  fill- 
ed from  one  dynamo.  Thought  fills  us.  We  use  it 
as  we  will  and  it  lifts  the  man.  This  simple  state- 
ment is  more  eloquent  than  all  rhetoric  can  be.  I 
cannot  think  of  the  greatness  of  the  fact  without 
tears.  It  means  more  than  all  other  facts  to  the 
race.  Thought  is  force  that  can  be  made  to  affect 
ponderable  matter.  " Chalk  marks  don't  draw- 
cars!"  said  a  railroad  man.  Chalk  marks  will 
draw  cars,  when  thought  is  put  into  them  to  do 
so.  This  is  the  Prophecy: — Thought  will  in  the 
future  become  subject  to  conscious  control.  We 
shall  yet  intelligently  do  all  that  the  Hindoos  are 
now  credited  with  doing. 

Life  is  subject  to  will.  Thought  is  a  maniiestation 
of  Infinite  Life.  Thought  is  Infinite. .  We  know  it 
is  Power.  It  is  one  with  all  other  forms  of  power. 
Its  source  is  limitless.  It  will  flow  through  us  in 
any  required  amount.  We  can  direct  it  to  any  de- 
sired end.  This  is  demonstrated  by  telepathy;  by 
bodily  renovation;  by  the  building  of  body  to  will. 
Thought  will  be  used  to  control  all  the  lesser  forms 
of  force;  to  direct  fire,  water,  wind,  wave,  light, 
electricity  and  gravity.  The  fire  will  cease  to  burn 
at  command.  " The  wind  and  the -wave  obey  him." 
Plant  and  animal  life  will  come  at  his  thought — to 
him  willing  servants.  Dream!  Illusion!  Rhapsody! 
all  this  may  be  called.  It  is  only  the  calm  reason- 
ing from  present  scientific  knowledge.  Let  it  stand 


14  MAN'S  GREATEST 

for  future  generations  to  verify.  The  time  is  now 
for  us  to  begin  this  dominion  of  Mind  over  Nature. 
Beginning  with  our  own  body,  we  will  progress 
until  even  the  largest  of  our  environments  is  sub- 
ject to  our  will. 

Would  you  win?  Begin  now  to  control  SELF- 
manifestations  by  controlling  Thought,  and  by 
recognizing  that  it  does  the  work.  As  you  have 
used  in  the  past  other  power,  now  use  this.  NEVER 

BEGIN  TO  DO  A  THING  UNTIL  YOU  ARE  READY.  And 

you  are  not  ready  until,  like  the  engine  on  the 
track,  you  are  filled  with  Power.  The  hasty,  the 
worried,  the  fearful,  the  irritable,  the  impatient, 
the  doubtful,  the  fault-finding,  are  all  like  the  en- 
gine that  has  punctures  in  the  boilers,  or  has  no 
fire.  They  are  not  ready.  Get  ready  by  first  filling 
up  with  Thought.  As  in  the  experiment,  breathe 
and  think.  Consider  what  to  do;  think  of  it;  and 
breathe  slowly,  with  this  concentrated  thought. 
All  calm,  patient,  concentrated  persons  do  this. 
All  happy,  healthful  and  successful  persons  do  this. 
It  is  the  secret  of  their  success.  Before  they  move 
to  do,  they  let  the  Thought  fill  them — possess  them. 
The  Suggestion  and  the  Affirmation  must  have 
time  and  opportunity  to  fill  the  organism  with  its 
power.  This  done,  then  this  Power,this  Thought, 
does  the  work.  Think  and  breathe  before  you  act! 
This  is  the  Law  of  Power. 

This  is  the  conquering  force  in  man  that  will  give 
him  dominion  over  all  things.  Its  scientific  dem- 
onstration is  in  the  simple  experiment  given  above. 
I  challenge  the  world  upon  this.  Try  it.  Learn 
that  by  concentration,  Thought  -will,  through  the 
individual,  accomplish  any  Desire.  Emerson  said 
this  long  ago,  but  we  have  just  learned  it:  "From 
within  or  from  behind,  a  Light  shines  through  man 
upon  things.  The  man  is  nothing,  but  the  Light 
is  All." 


II. 


TELEPATHY** 
The  Missing  Link* 

The  Power  that  manifests  throughout  the  Universe  distinguish- 
ed as  material,  is  the  same  Power  which  in  ourselves  \vells  up 
under  the  form  of  Consciousness. — Herbert  Spencer,  in  "Princi- 
ples of  Sociology." 

Its  stupendous  span  reaches  all  orders  of  existence.  *  *  *  It  rule* 
the  actions  and  relations  of  men.— Prof.  E.  L.  Youmans,  on  the 
"Law  of  Conservation  and  Correlation  of  Energy." 
Thought  and  feeling  themselves,  which  can  neither  be  weighed 
nor  measured,  do  not  admit  of  being  resolved  into  modes  of 
motion."— John  Fiske,  in  "Through  Nature  to  God." 
The  immortality  of  our  thoughts  and  actions  is  a  corrolary  of 
the  doctrine  of  the  conservation  of  energy. — Peter  C.  Austin, 
Ph.  D.,  of  the  Brooklyn  Polytechnic  Institute. 
Mind  and  matter  appear  to  us  as  an  irreducible  quality. — 
Editorial  Review  in  Popular  Science  Monthly. 
That  mind  and  nature  must  at  last  be  the  same,  that  physical 
laws  and  mental  laws  must  be  identical,  is  essentially  involved 
in  what  has  been  said  as  to  the  relations  between  matter,  force 
and  movement.— Buchner,  in  "Force  and  Matter." 
That  one  body  can  act  upon  another  at  a  distance  through  a 
vacuum  without  the  mediation  of  anything  else,  by  and  through 
which  their  activity  and  force  may  be  conveyed,  is  to  me  so 
great  an  absurdity  that  I  believe  that  no  man  who  has  a  ca- 
pacity for  thinking  can  ever  fall  into. — Newton,  in  "Principia." 
The  gulf  which  separates  *  *  *  the  organic  from  the  inorganic 
bodies,  is  not  closed  up,  and  none  of  our  hypotheses  help  us  to 
bridge  the  gulf. — Prof.  Chon,  of  Breslan,  at  a  meeting  of  Ger- 
man physicians. 

These  extracts  not  only  show  that  there  is  to 
science  and  philosophy  a  ' 'missing  link,"  but  they 
also  demonstrate  that  the  scientists  recognize  this 
and  the  necessity  of  supplying  it.  There  is  not 
uniformity  among  them.  The  principle  of  Unity 


16  MAN'S  GREATEST 

compels  Spencer  and  some  others  to  affirm,  with 
Youmans,  the  unity  of  the  Law.  Fiske  recognizes 
the  Law,  but  illogically  denies  that  thought  and 
feeling  come  under  it. 

But  among  those  who  see  the  necessity,  the  logical 
fact  of  unity  and  the  universality  of  the  Law,  it  is 
at  best  with  them  not  a  fact,  but  merely  an  opin- 
ion. No  proof  do  they  have  except  that  which 
should  be  the  most  convincing — Perception.  This 
"Gulf"  is  non-existant. 

The  fact  of  this  missing  link  illustrates  the 
limits  and  the  ignorance  of  science  upon  this  most 
important  subject.  In  regard  to  Thought,  the  in- 
vestigators are  today  where  scientists  were  one 
hundred  years  ago  in  regard  to  special  creation. 
They  lack  facts  upon  which  to  rest  the  feeling  of 
truth.  For  all  truth  begins  in  feeling.  "Thoughts," 
says  Edward  Carpenter,  "are  dying  feelings."  All 
truth  is  self-evident.  Men  are  obliged  to  reason 
themselves  into  errors.  Truth  is  perceived  by  the 
Soul— is  felt— is  self-evident.  All  men  feel  Unity. 
They  feel  that  Law  is  universal.  Because  they  do 
not  have  the  necessary  facts,  they  reason  from 
those  they  have  and  build  up  fine,  but  erroneous, 
theories. 

So  builded  the  man  who  demonstrated,  by  reason, 
that  steamships  could  not  cross  the  ocean,  and  the 
reverend  who,  in  my  boyhood's  hearing,  reasoned 
that  chloroform  could  not  be  possible,because  God 
intended  man  to  suffer  pain.  In  biology,  the  "miss- 
ing links"  are  the  dividing  lines  man  has  made  be- 
tween the  species.  Were  all  the  facts  in  evidence, 
there  would  be  no  species.  There  would  be  one 
unbroken  line  of  development.  So  here,  when  all 
the  facts  that  are  at  man's  disposal  shall  be  allow- 
ed to  testify,  there  will  be  no  missing  links  in  Life, 
no  break  in  Law.  There  will  be  one  unbroken  line 
of  evolution  from  protoplasm  to  Love, — one  chain 


DISCOVERY.  ...  17 

i 

from  God  to  rock,  and  from  rock  to  God  again. 
Lizzie  Doten  has  expressed  this  beautifully:  — 

God  of  the  granite  and  the  rose, 

Soul  of  the  sparrow  and  the  bee! 
The  mighty  tide  of  Being  flows 

Through  all  its  channels,  Lord,  from  Thee! 
It  springs  to  life  in  grass  and  flowers, 

Through  every  grade  of  Being  runs, 
Till  from  creation's  radiant  towers, 

Its  glory  flames  in  stars  and  suns. 

God  of  the  granite  and  the  rose, 

Soul  of  the  sparrow  and  the  bee! 
The  mighty  tide  of  Being  flows 

Through  all  its  channels  back  to  Thee! 
Thus  round  and  round  the  current  runs, 

A  mighty  sea  without  a  shore, 
Till  men  and  angels,  stars  and  suns, 

Unite  to  praise  thee  ever  more! 

Is  this  truth  or  is  it  mere  poetry?  Is  it  feeling  or 
is  it  reason?  I  cannot  conceive  of  a  person  who 
will  not  feel  that  it  is  Truth.  Can  you  not  reason 
it  so?  Spencer,  Buchner,  and  others,  have  so  rea- 
soned. But  can  you  prove  it?  Can  it  be  proven? 
What  will  this  proof  mean?  What  will  the  discov- 
ery of  this  link  between  granite  and  Soul  mean  to 
the  race?  Where  in  the  list  of  human  achievements 
will  it  rank  when  found? 

It  will  mean,  first  of  all,  the  abolishing  of  Death 
from  human  thought.  It  will  mean  the  demon- 
stration of  Life  forever.  It  will  demonstrate  all 
the  hopes  of  the  race  to  be  facts.  It  will  demon- 
strate as  realities,  all  the  desires  of  the  race  for 
continued  communication  with  loved  ones  who 
have  not  died,  but  who  have  changed  environment. 
It  will  mean  the  demonstration  of  infinite  faculties 
in  Man,  and  an  infinite  Life  in  which  to  develop 
them.  It  will  demonstrate  that  Man  is  not  yet 
born;  that  birth  is  before  him;  that  all  these  eons 
he  has  been  gestating  in  this  womb  of  flesh,  await- 
ing birth.  Now  he  will  soon  be  born  and,  when 


18  MAN'S  GREATEST 

born,  will  not  need  undertaker,  grave  nor  sorrow. 
All  this  past  life  of  man  has  been  filled  with 
premature  births;  men  born  out  of  time, — before 
time.  They  have,  like  five  months  babes,  had  to 
be  nurtured  in  the  nurseries  of  the  Spirit  till  they 
were  able  to  walk  alone.  Earth  has  been  a  char- 
nel  house  when  it  should  have  been  a  paradise. 
Ignorance,  which  is  only  undevelopment,  is  cause — 
a  necessary  cause — in  the  evolution  of  Man.  Now 
he  is  no  longer  "coming,"  he  is  here — here  in  the 
recognition  of  himself  as  ONE  with  that  Power 
which  is  ALL. 

He  was  the  slave  of  Law  until  he  learned  to  be  its 
servant.  Now  he  is  becoming  its  Master.  Becom- 
ing Law!  Becoming  Conscious  Law!  And  no  long- 
er  slave,  or  servant,  he  is  King  over  himself.  Emer- 
son, seeing  beyond  all  other  seers,  this  MAN, 
exclaimed:  "CONSCIOUS  LAW  IS  KING  OF 
KINGS." 

This  one  fact  of  telepathy  accepted,  we  have  the 
missing  link.  This  will  necessitate  a  complete  re- 
volution in  obedience  to  the  Law  of  Evolution — 
a  revolution  that  will  change  all  present  civiliza- 
tion as  much  as  the  ancient  has  been  changed  by 
astronomy,  magnetic  needle,  printing  press,  dis- 
covery of  coal,  application  of  steam,  and  the  appli- 
cation of  electricity.  A  change  as  great  will  be 
wrought  by  this  fact  developed  into  the  Art  of  Liv- 
ing as  has  been  wrought  by  all  of  these,  for  it  will 
locate  ALL  POWER  within  the  Man.  He  can  do 
anything,  because  he  is  Conscious  Law,  and  his 
creative  power  is  Thought.  All  he  has  now  to 
learn  is  how  to  use  Thought  intelligently,  learn 
as  he  has  learned  to  use  steam,  and  he  will  have 
"dominion  over  all  things." 

This  fact,  this  "missing  link,"  is  TELEPATHY- 
THOUGHT  TRANSFERENCE.  Telepathy  is  de- 
fined by  Prof.  Crooks  as  "the  transmission  of  a 


DISCOVERY.  ...  19 

thought,  or  an  emotion,  from  one  person  to 
another  without  visible  means  of  contact."  This 
is  a  common  phenomenon.  It  has  been  ignored, 
denied,  feared,  considered  canny  and  mysterious, 
simply  because  its  cause  was  not  known.  When 
once  thought  is  put  into  the  catagory  of  vibration, 
and  considered  one  of  the  modes  of  Infinite  Energy, 
then  all  is  clear.  Telepathy  places  it  there.  This 
discovery  is  man's  greatest.  Things,  events,  per- 
sons, are  to  be  measured  by  results.  Great  things 
require  the  perspective  of  centuries.  The  Law  of 
Conservation  and  Correlation  of  Forces,  which 
Prof.  Youmans  tells  us  was  in  1864  characterized 
as  "the  greatest  discovery  of  that  half  of  the  cen- 
tury," had  then  been  over  half  a  century  in  obtain- 
ing recognition.  Even  now  it  is  not  fully  accepted. 
Its  greatness  is  not  appreciated  by  even  scientists 
themselves.  Every  day  its  far  reaching  power  is 
being  revealed. 

So  is  it  \vith  this  simple  fact — this  every  day  fact — 
this  fact  of  telepathy,  from  which  has  been  coined 
the  saying,  "The  devil  is  always  near  when  you 
are  talking  about  him."  It  is  so  simple,  so  com- 
mon, that  it  is  considered  valueless;  but,  "the 
stone  the  builders  rejected  has  become  the  head  of 
the  corner."  All  the  phenomena  of  the  various  re- 
ligions of  the  world,  of  the  mystics  and  psychics, 
of  ancient  and  modern  Spiritualism,  all  the  strange 
and  mysterious  in  life,  are  made  clear  when  it  is  seen 
that  Thought  is  Power;  that  the  Universe  is  One;  that 
Life  is  One.  Mind  acts  upon  mind,  therefore  there 
is  no  separation.  All  we  have  to  do  is  to  learn  to 
talk  in  thought  and  not  in  oral  speech;  to  listen 
to  thoughts,  and  not  with  the  external  ear  to  the 
slower  vibrations  called  sound.  All  the  intelli- 
gences that  ever  lived  are  then  with  us  and  we 
with  them.  As  all  fishes  in  the  sea,  or  all  birds  in 
the  air,  are  in  one  common  vibratory  medium,  and 


20  MAN'S  GREATEST 

can  at  will  converse,  so  are  we  in  Thought — in  the 
ALL. 

But  greater  than  this:— THOUGHT  is  ALL  THE  POW- 
ER, for  all  is  Mind.  Matter  never  had  existance. 
All  is  Mind.  All  is  Vibration.  All  man's  power  is 
the  Power  of  Mind.  This  Power  is  directed  by 
Conscious  thought.  It  can  be  directed  to  do  any- 
thing. It  can  literally  "move  mountains."  Telep- 
athy, demonstrating  that  thought  is  force,  does 
not  stop  at  the  mere  transmitting  of  vibrations 
between  mind  and  mind,  but,  since  all  things  are 
only  materialized  mind  (reduced  vibrations  when 
compared  with  thought),  it  follows  that  things 
feel  thought  waves,  and  that  we  can  learn  to  con- 
trol things  by  thought.  The  Hindoo  does  this, — 
we  can.  Here  then  is  the  wisdom,  the  insight,  and 
the  greatness  of  Professor  Dolbear,  who  makes 
this  remarkable  statement,  perfectly  in  harmony 
with  the  position  taken  by  this  book: — 

No  one  may  assume  for  an  instant  that  the  possibilities  of 
other  phenomena  are  limited  to  such  interactions  as  have  here- 
tofore found  expression  in  treatises  on  physics.  Indeed  there  is 
evidence  \vhich  cannot  be  ignored  with  safety,  that  physical 
phenomena  sometimes  take  place  when  all  ordinary  anteced- 
ents are  absent,  when  bodies  move  without  touch,  electric,  or 
magnetic  agencies,  movements  which  are  orderly  and  more  or 
less  subject  to  volition.  In  addition  to  this,  is  still  other  evi- 
dence of  competent,  critical  observers,  that  the  subject  matter 
of  thought  is  directly  transferable  from  one  mind  to  another. 
Such  facts  do  not  invalidate  physical  laws  nor  make  it  needful 
to  modify  present  statements  concerning  energy.  If  such  things 
be  true,  they  are  of  more  importance  to  philosophy  than  the 
whole  body  of  physical  knowledge  we  now  have,  and  of  vast 
importance  to  humanity.  For  it  gives  religion  corroborative 
testimony  of  the  real  existence  of  possibilities  for  which  it  has 
always  contended. — "Matter,  Ether  and  Motion,"  p.  353. 

"If?"  There  is  no  "if"  to  one  who  will  seek.  Not 
an  hour  but  the  psychometrists,  clairvoyants, 
telepathists,  are  demonstrating  this  fact  that 
thought  is  power  and  that  it  is  transmitted  from 
mind  to  mind  (as  Professor  Dolbear,  in  the  preface 


DISCOVERY.  ...  21 

of  an  early  edition,  thinks  possible,)  through  the 
ether.  I  demonstrate  it  daily  in  my  psychometric 
readings.  I  receive  feelings  and  read  from  them  the 
character  of  the  sender.  At  times,  I  receive  the 
thoughts.  A  letter,  no  matter  from  whom  or 
where  or  when  written,  tells  me,  as  I  hold  it  and 
listen  to  it,  the  character,  the  mental  and  physical 
conditions  of  the  writer  and  often  his  past,  and  his 
environment;  and  many  times  his  friends  and 
their  thoughts,  for  it  opens  to  me  his  thought- 
world.  Here  then  is  the  "missing  link"  which 
science  and  philosophy  have  long  needed  to  unite 
them  in  one.  The  link  is  telepathy  with  its  dem- 
onstration of  thought  as  force.  It  nnites  physics 
and  metaphysics,  science  and  philosophy,  science 
and  religion,  matter  and  spirit,  in  one  whole. 
Each  of  these  branches  of  knowledge  is  now  con- 
cerned with  some  links  in  the  endless  chain  of  Energy 
to  the  exclusion  of  others.  The  chain  is  one  as 
God  is  ONE.  Life  is  One!  Energy  is  One!  We  are 
to  study  Life  as  One,  makeing  no  dividing  lines 
where  Nature  has  not.  "What  God  hath  joined, 
let  no  man  put  asunder." 


ESSA.Y   III. 


THE  ULTIMATE  OF  POWER. 
The  Universe  Is 


Nor  can  we  venture  to  speak  of  Life  as  one  of  the  varieties  or 

manifestations  of  energy.  —  Prof.  Wm.  Crooks. 

All  about  us,  and  within  us,  exist  rates  of  vibration  known  as 

forms  of  energy,  some  of  them  forced  by  man's  ingenuity  to  re- 

cord themselves  by  aid  of  mechanism,  others  yet  waiting  this 

sort  of  detection.   Recording  devices  to  reveal  the  laws  of  light, 

heat,  chemical  affinity  are  familiar,  but  no  one  yet  in  a  similar 

manner  records  thought  or  gravity.  —  Wm.  J.  Martin,  in  Cen- 

tury Magazine. 

Force  is  not  gravity,  nor  electricity,  nor  magnetism,  nor  chem- 

ical affinity.  But  WILL  is  the  typical  idea  of  Force.—  Dr.  Brown, 

Dean  of  Boston  University. 

It  is  evident  that  there  will  eventually  take  place  an  integra- 

tion by  which  all  orders  of  phenomena  will  be  combined  and 

recognized  as  differently  conditioned  forms  of  one  ultimate  fact. 

—  Herbert  Spencer. 

We  know  nothing  of  the  ultimate  of  force.    Science  is  already 

getting  something  like  a  firm  hold  of  the  idea  that  all  kinds  of 

motion  are  but  forms  of  one  persistent  Force,  arising  in  one 

fountain  head  of  Power.—  Duke  ofArgyle. 

All  phenomena  are  in  their  ultimate  analysis  known  to  us  only 

as  facts  of  consciousness.—  Prof.  Huxley. 

Thoughts  and  feelings  are  the  fundamental  facts  from  which 

there  is  no  escaping.—  John  Fiske. 

The  laws  of  thought  are  the  laws  of  the  universe.  —  Buchner. 

Thought  is  Power.—  Victor  Hugo. 

Great  men  are  they  who  see  that  spiritual  force  is  stronger  than 

material  force;  that  thoughts  rule  the  world.—  Emerson. 

This  last  quotation,  fron  Emerson,  shall  be  the 
text  of  this  essay.     Science  and  philosophy  have 
ever  sought   for  the  ultimate,  for  the  origin  of 
Power.    Religion  has  ever  been  the  recognition 


DISCOVERY.  ...  23 

and  worship  of  Power.  Theology  has  been  a  sys- 
tem of  belief  in  Power.  Theology  assumes  a  begin- 
ning of  things,  which  is  only  a  beginning  of  the 
manifestation  of  Power  in  things  or  by  things  or 
through  things.  From  the  earliest  theology  to 
the  latest,  it  has  been  the  incarnation  of  Power 
that  has  received  praise,  thanksgiving,  sacrifice, 
and,  where  possible,  love.  Omnipotence  is  the  God 
of  the  world.  Power  has  thus  been  recognized  as 
ONE,  even  before  modern  science  so  decided.  The 
Greek,  placing  Fate  above  all  the  gods,  located 
Power  as  ONE.  Monotheism  is  the  belief  in  the 
ONE  Power. 

Thus  Power  has  been  the  ONE  principle  without 
which  no  other  could  be.  It  has  been  the  ONE- 
thing  without  which  there  was  no-thing.  With 
Power — Omnipotence — all  things  were  possible. 
Hence  in  the  Ideal,  Power  has  been  the  chiei  and 
the  prime  constituent.  To  subdue,  to  create,  and 
to  exercise  Power,  has  been  man's  ambition.  For 
Power  is  Lite  and  Life  manifests  in  Power.  So 
much  Power,  so  much  Life.  From  child  making 
mud  pies,  to  Edison  in  his  laboratory;  from  negro 
voodoo,  to  Episcopal  bishop;  from  seance,  to  syn- 
od; from  club,  to  dynamite;  from  water,  to  gas; 
from  wind,  to  electricity;  from  pugilist,  to  com- 
mander-in-chief;  from  toy  boat,  to  Dewey's  fleet; 
from  ward-boss,  to  king;  from  money,  to  magnet- 
ism; from  medicine,  to  Mental  Science;  there  has 
been  only  one  cry,  one  desire,  one  hunger.  It  is  the 
infinite  demand  for  Power,  never  to  be  satisfied 
until  man  finds  and  manifests  infinity. 
To  meet  and  to  satisfy  this  God-demand  within 
himself,  he  has  conquered  the  external  forces  and 
made  them  obey  his  will,  only  to  find  greater  de- 
sire and  greater  unrest.  He  conquered  the  wild 
horse  and  made  him  his  servant.  But  the  power 
that  conquered  the  horse  is  greater  than  the  horse. 


2k  MAN'S  GREATEST 

The  horse  never  yielded  to  the  physical  power  man 
exerted.  But  to  ....  what?  He  conquered  wind 
and  made  it  fill  his  sail  and  bear  him  wherever  he 
would.  He  is  more  powerful  than  the  wind.  He 
chained  the  water  and  fed  it  with  flame,  until,  har- 
nessed, it  became  his  slave.  That  which  harnessed 
steam  is  more  powerful  than  steam. 
He  reached  out  into  space  and,  grasping  the  bolts 
of  Jove,  taught  the  gods  how  to  wield  their  power, 
as  he  buckled  them  to  his  cars  and  made  the  fires 
of  heaven  his  torches  and  their  dynamic  forces  his 
messengers.  But  the  Power  that  could  thus  teach 
the  gods  is  greater  than  the  lightning.  Lightning 
would  ever  have  remained  lightning  and  been  self- 
destructive,  had  not  man — Thought — come  to  en- 
fold and  direct.  Man  virtually  made  electricity  by 
converting  destructive  Power,  through  direction, 
to  use.  In  man,  then,  lies  the  greater  power — the 
Power  that  can  control  all  Power,  not  himself. 
Everywhere  else  is  the  principle  recognized  that  it 
takes  superior  Power  to  control  any  form  of  Pow- 
er. Why  not  recognize  the  same  law  here?  The 
conqueror  comes  in  some  greater  form  of  Power. 
This  principle  is  admitted  and  yet,  because  of  pres- 
ent methods  of  thinking,  it  will  be  said: — Man  mas- 
ters because  he  is  man — because  he  thinks  and 
builds  mechanism  through  which  Power  may  act. 
True.  If  Thought  can  thus  direct,  is  not  Thought 
Power?  The  very  banks  of  the  river  are  Power. 
The  still  car  is  Power  and  only  superior  Power 
can  move  it.  Nothing  can  move  nothing.  Nothing 
can  direct  nothing.  Only  Power  can  direct  Power. 
Had  man  any  sails  until  he  thought  ' 'Sails?" 
What  caused  him  to  think  ' 'Sails?"  Recognition 
of,  and  faith  in,  external  Power.  Faith  led  the 
way  to  achievement.  As  long  as  man  recognizes 
only  external  Power,  what  Emerson  calls  "Mater- 
ial force,"  he  will  have  faith  in  that  alone  and  will 


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use  that  alone.  When  he  shall  recognize  interior, 
* 'Spiritual,"  Power,  then  he  will  have  faith  in  that 
form  and  will  learn  to  use  it.  He  once  was  used 
by  the  "material"  forms  of  force  which  he  now 
controls.  He  is  now  used  as  a  leaf  in  the  Missis- 
sippi of  Spiritual  Thought-Power.  He  will  learn  to 
use  it,  and  then  be  the  Master  of  Fate.  When  he 
thinks  of  himself  as  Power,  he  will  use  himself  as 
Power  and  will  be  Power.  Then  will  all  other 
forms  be  obedient  to  him  or  be  useless.  Thought 
is  Power.  It  is  the  highest  form  of  Power  that 
man,  the  director  of  the  Omnipotence  in  himself, 
can  use.  He  is  Thought.  He  is  Power  conscious 
of  itself. 

Jesus  said:  "The  kingdom  of  God  is  within  you!  " 
"Kingdom"  means,  if  it  means  anything,  Power. 
That  Power  is  God.  God  is  Omnipotent  and  Ever- 
present.  Then  it  follows  that  where  God  is,  or 
where  God's  kingdom  is,  there  is  Omnipotence. 
He  is  daily  manifesting  the  Universal  Power  with- 
in himself.  He  IS  Omnipotence.  Can  Omnipotence 
be  limited?  Not  by  Itself.  Man  only  can  limit 
himself.  Self-Limitation  is  then  the  only  possible 
limitation  to  the  power  of  man.  This  limitation 
is  a  thought  man  places  over  himself.  This  thought 
is  born  in  ignorance.  When  he  knows  himself  as 
he  is,  he  will  not  be  limited.  The  power  to  limit  is 
equal  to  the  power  limited.  Man,  therefore,  as  an 
individual,  balances  the  Absolute.  He  is  the  equal 
in  Power  to  all  that  is  not  himself.  The  Me  and 
the  Non-Me  are  equal.  The  Universe  is  ONE.  The 
ultimate  seat  of  power,  so  long  sought,  is  found. 
It  is  in  man.  The  Ultimate  Power  so  long  sought 
is  MAN. 

As  far  as  Man  is  concerned,  he  is  all  power,  and 
has  only  to  use  that  which  he  himself  IS.  Any 
power  outside  himself  has  influence  upon  him  only 
so  far  as  he,  by  recognition  of  it,  has  given  it  power. 


26  MAN'S  GREATEST 

He  confers  upon  things  their  power  to  harm.  He  is 
master,  and  can  still  every  tempest  by  his  "  Peace ,. 
be  still,"  when  he  comes  to  know  himself  as  Soul. 
Ignorant  of  his  heir  ship  to  the  Crown  of  Life,  he 
yields  himself  a  slave  where  he  should  reign  as 
king.  He  manifests  all  his  power  in  those '  'Funda- 
mental facts"  of  Fiske,— Thought  and  Feeling.  He 
can  control  all  that  is  not  himself,  and  also  him- 
self, by  those  laws  that  Buchner  calls  "Laws  of 
the  Universe,"  for  they  are  only  the  Laws  of 
Thought.  Since  man  can  control  thought,  he  is 
the  Master  of  the  Universe  and  "a  Law  unto  him- 
self." His  Universe  is  his  body  and  his  environ- 
ment. He  is  as  supreme  in  his  individual  Universe 
as  God  is  in  the  Absolute  Universe. 
That  "Will, "of  which  Dr.  Brown  speaks,  is  the  per- 
sistency of  Force,  the  Law  of  Crystallization,  the 
Survival  of  the  Fittest,  the  Descent  by  Heredity, 
and  all  "natural  laws"  of  science  and  philosophy, 
to  which  man  now  holds  himself  responsible  and 
to  which  he  will  be  slave  until  he  shall,  as  an  in- 
dividual, control,  by  his  Will,  the  undifferentiated 
Will  that  is  manifesting  through  him.  That  "In- 
tegration' '  Spencer  prophesies  is  made  a  fact  by 
"Man's  Greatest  Discovery."  It  is  demonstrated 
daily  by  the  facts  of  Telepathy  and  Mental  Healing. 
To  assume,  as  in  the  common  belief,  that  all  man 
can  do  is  to  direct  physical  force,  or  to  relegate,  as 
does  Prof.  Crooks,  Life  to  some  other  origin  than 
that  of  ordinary  force,  is  to  limit  man  to  the  use  of 
external  force,  and  this  to  the  neglect  of  himself  as 
force.  It  is  to  shut  the  gates  of  the  "Kingdom." 
"Lift  up  your  heads,  O  ye  eternal  gates,  and  the 
King  of  Glory  shall  come  in!  Who  is  the  King  of 
Glory?"  MAN.  Man  recognizing  himself  as  Pow- 
er. Religion  and  Science  are  now  so  wed  by  this 
discovery  that  hereafter  they  are  One.  One  in  the 
recognition  of  Power,  and  all  Power  as  One. 


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Why  am  I  thus  positive?  Because  as  surely  as  the 
early  electricians  saw  that  they  were  dealing  with 
Power,  and  felt  then  all  the  possibilities  it  held  for 
the  future,  so  do  I  realize  the  possibilities  of  thought 
when  directed,  as  it  can  be,  by  the  Conscious  Will. 
Not  long  ago  I  blindfolded  a  boy  and  thought  to 
him,  "You  will  go  and  touch  the  mantel."  Soon 
his  body  swayed  and,  had  he  not  stepped,  he  would 
have  fallen  forward.  He  was  soon  touching  the 
mantel.  I  mentally  requested  a  young  man,  who 
did  not  know  that  I  was  going  to  experiment  with 
him  at  the  time, "Bring  me  my  clock."  He  went 
at  once  to  the  shelf  and  brought  it  to  me.  Asking 
the  boy  why  he  went,  he  replied:  "I  felt  pulled 
that  way."  The  young  man  said:  "I  felt  impelled 
to  do  it."  What  pulled,  what  impelled?  Thought 
as  Power.  It  is  true  that  it  may  be  said  that  I 
awakened  Thought  in  them.  If  so,  Thought  did 
the  work.  That  which  awakens  Power  is  Power. 
That  is  all  I  am  now  demonstrating.  Some  form 
of  vibration  went  from  me  to  them. 
Accumulate  enough  of  vibration,  or  of  energy, 
which  is  the  same,  and  something  must  move.  A 
lady  requested  me  to  treat  her  daughter  by  the 
absent  method.  I  told  the  girl  mentally  that  she 
would  be  well  at  such  a  time,  and  that  all  pain 
would  leave  at  such  a  time;  told  her  to  goto  sleep, 
and  to  awaken  at  such  a  time,  all  of  which  she  did. 
Thought  is  Power.  Demonstrations  similar  to  these, 
thousands  of  teachers  and  healers  are  making. 
Who  shall  limit  the  Power  of  thought?  Faith  can 
move  mountains.  Faith  is  only  Thought  united 
with,  and  directing,  all  the  Soul  torces.  Faith  is 
the  Self-Suggestion  of  Power.  Faith  is  a  Sugges- 
tion of  the  Conscious  man  dropped  into  the  Infin- 
ity of  the  Unconscious.  Faith  is  telling  the  Soul 
what  to  manifest.  Faith  is  the  Conscious  Power 
of  God.  Faith  is  the  Power  of  the  Conscious  God. 


ESSAY   IV. 


Its  Potential  and  Its  Conservation* 

Potential:  —  Anything  that  is  possible.  —  Bacon. 
Conservation:—  The  fundamental  principle  of  modern  physics:—  - 
that  the  total  amount  of  energy  in  nature  is  constant;     that 
it  can  neither  be  increased  nor  diminished.—  Century  Diet. 
Life  is  not  the  result  of  organism,  but  the  reverse.  —  Haeckle. 
Life  is  only  a  particular  kind  of  mechanics.—  Virchow. 
Consciousness:  —  The  common  condition  of  Self-Knowledge.  — 
Sir  Wm.  Hamilton. 

Out  of  the  deeps  of  Ultimate  Being  proceeds  the  outgoing,  act- 
ing Life.  The  energy  behind  all  evolution  is  the  progressive 
consciousness  of  God.  —  Bradley,  in"  Appearance  and  Reality." 
Our  conscious  life  is  a  stream  of  varying  physical  states  which 
follow  one  another  quickly,  in  a  perpetual  shimmer,  with  never 
an  instant  of  rest.  The  elementary  psychical  states,  indeed  lie 
below  consciousness,  or,  as  we  may  say,  they  are  sub-conscious. 
We  may  call  these  primitive  pulsations  the  psychical  molecules 
out  of  which  are  compounded  the  thoughts  and  feelings  that 
-well  up  into  the  stream  of  consciousness.—  John  Fiske,  in 
"Through  Nature  to  God." 

There  can  be  no  scientific  doubt  that  Life  obeys  no  special  or 
exceptional  laws.  *  *  *  It  must  be  regarded  as  the  result  of  a 
different  interaction  of  chemical  and  physical  forces,  or  a  par- 
ticular complicated  round  of  mechanical  motion.—  Buchner,  in 
"Force  and  Matter." 

If  my  body  came  from  brute,  though  I  sensate  from  their  own, 
I  am  here.   This  is  my  kingdom.  Shall  the  royal  voice  be  mute? 
Hold  the  scepter,  Human  Soul,  and  rule  thy  province  of  the 
brute.  —  Tennyson. 

Each  Soul  is  in  focus  of  world  *  *  * 
For  there  transformation  is  wrought, 
Where  forces  are  changed  into  Thought. 
—  /.  W.  Powell,  "The  Soul." 

When    once   the  "Great  Discovery"  was    made, 


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through  telepathy,  that  thought  is,  like  heat, 
sound,  light,  a  mode  of  motion,  identical  in  princi- 
ple with  all  other  forms  of  motion,  then  was  the 
way  open  for  the  study  of  Life  also  as  a  mode  of 
motion.  Uutil  then,  Life  was  outside  the  possibil- 
ity of  study.  Its  phenomena  could  be  catalogued, 
but  Life  itself  was  an  unknown  quantity. 
Thought  is  Life  transformed  in  accordance  with 
Nature's  one  unerring  law  of  Conservation.  Force 
is  transformable  but  non-destructible,  non-creat- 
able.  Thought,  being  a  form  of  force,  had  an  an- 
tecedent form.  In  this  antecedent  form,  which  we 
term  Life,  it  passes  through  the  brain  and  becomes 
thought.  As  it  passes  out  of  the  brain,  it  ceases 
to  be  thought.  It  becomes  some  other  form 
of  Vibration.  It  is  not  lost.  Though  we  may 
not  follow  it  now,  we  shall  sometime  do  so.  It  is 
safe  to  infer  that  part  of  this  force  is  changed  to 
Will,  and  from  Will  is  changed  into  the  power  to  do, 
— into  that  power  which  acts  in  unison  with  chem- 
ical power.  By  the  action  of  each  mode  of  motion 
upon  each,  is  caused  the  phenomena  we  call  the 
visible  conduct  of  man. 

Not  yet  has  the  beefsteak  been  traced  by  conversion 
to  the  thought  of  the  noon.  To  so  attempt  to 
trace  thought,  would  be  to  trace  the  origin  of  the 
steam  in  the  boiler  to  the  boiler  itself.  The  boiler 
causes  the  steam  only  as  one  of  the  many  factors 
at  work.  Without  the  boiler,  there  would  be  vapor 
but  no  steam.  We  trace  steam  to  water  and  heat; 
water  and  heat  to  still  other  forms  of  force.  To 
trace  steam  to  boiler,  would  be  reasoning  in  the 
circle  which  traces  thought  to  food.  Food  and 
some  other  force  must  make  the  phenomena  of 
physical  life.  We  trace  water  and  iron  back  to  the 
One  energy.  They  are  One  in  the  Universal  Sub- 
stance. (One  in  God,  as  theology  truly  says.)  Not 
yet  by  any  process  has  chemistry  been  able  to  con- 


30  M'ANS  GREATEST 

vert  one  into  the  other,  or  to  trace  the  change 
irom  food  to  thought,  and  I  do  not  think  it  possible. 
Thought  and  body  are  two  manifestations  of  the 
One.  But  they  are  manifestations  of  two  streams 
of  power  that  start  from  the  One,  which,  flowing 
side  by  side,  make  by  interaction  the  phenomena 
of  the  visible  universe.  They  are  never  converted, 
or  transformed,  into  each  other.  One  is  ordinarily 
called  matter,  the  other  is  called  by  Science,  Ether; 
by  Soul  Culture,  Spirit.  Both  are  forms  of  motion. 
Both  flow  from  the  One,  the  Undifferentiated,  the 
Unconditioned,  the  Unconscious, the  Homogeneous, 

*  *  *  "The  Undivided  Whole 

Of  which  each  creature  forms  a  part." 

By  a  series  of  actions  and  interactions,  the  poten- 
tialities of  the  One  are  manifest.  The  process  is 
called  Evolution. 

There  is  not  the  slightest  -warrant  for  saying, 
"thought  is  the  product  of  the  brain;"  this  is  put- 
ting the  cart  before  the  horse, — putting  effect  for 
cause.  Before  brain  was,  Life  was  to  build  it. 
After  Life  has  left  the  brain,  brain  ceases  to  be. 
Life  builds  brain.  Thought  is  Life  transformed. 
When  Life  leaves  brain,  brain  decays.  We  call  this 
death.  But  decomposition  is  the  result  of  the  same 
force  that  was  concerned  in  building  brain  as  con- 
structor under  direction  of  the  master, — Life.  One 
of  the  streams  of  Eternal  Energy  departs  from 
body  and  leaves  the  other — the  Chemical — to  work 
alone.  After  death  only  chemical,  automatic  action 
is  found  where  had  been  intelligent,  self-directive 
action.  Life  is  a  mode  of  motion,  but  it  can  man- 
ifest only  throught  contact  with  some  other  mode 
of  motion.  Science  has  heretofore  hesitated  about 
calling  Life  a  mode  of  motion.  Many  scientists 
and  philosophers  have  replied,  when  asked  if  Life 
is  identical  with  other  forms  of  force,  "No!"  All 
who  did  believe  Life  to  be  motion  were  called  ma- 


B  R  A 
THE 

f   UNIVERSITY    ) 
DISCOVERY.  .  .  .          Ji£  31 

terialists.  Even  Spencer  admits  that  we  must  seek 
a  spiritual  origin.  With  the  accepted  principle  of 
Unity,  all  thinkers  will  be  forced,  before  the  century 
ends,  through  the  demonstration  of  this  Greatest 
Discovery,  to  recognize  Life  as  one  form  of  the  One 
Energy.  And  it  will  not  be  considered  materialis- 
tic to  do  so,  for  the  present  distinction  of  matter 
and  spirit  will  pass  away.  All  will  be,  in  thought, 
neither  matter  nor  spirit,  but  will  be  the  Nameless 
and  Unknown  ONE  who  manifests  through  these 
two  streams  of  Motion. 

Life  is  the  ultimate  power  in  man.  Its  absence  is 
death.  When  Life  goes,  thought  goes.  Well  says 
Tennyson: — 

Life  and  Thought  have  gone  away 
Side  by  side, 

Leaving  doors  and  windows  wide: 
Careless  tenants  they. 

The  primal  manifestation  of  Life  in  man  is  Con- 
sciousness. The  primal  manifestation  of  the  One 
to  Man,  is  Life.  Be  it  where  it  may,  in  sand-grain 
or  in  Cherubim,  it  is  Life.  Each  phenomenon  is 
the  manifestation  of  the  One  Life. 
Like  all  other  forms  of  motion,  Life  (Spirit)  must 

Eass  through  transformations,  or  it  would  be  only 
itent,  unmanifested  Life.  Into  how  many  forms 
Life  is  transformable,  we  will  not  dogmatise,  but 
they  must  be  limitless.  Consciousness  is  one. 
There  are  changes  in  nerve  tissue  in  every  act  of 
consciousness.  There  must  be  a  corresponding 
change  in  that  which  uses  chemical  force  to  cause 
the  phenomena  of  physical  life. 
Thus  consciousness  is  transformed  Life.  It  is  the 
resultant  of  prior  conditions  of  sensation.  Sensa- 
tion is  the  result  of  contact  with  other  forms  of 
force.  Sensation  is  transformed  Life.  Born  of  sen- 
sation, is  Thought.  Man  says,  "I  feel."  Then  he 
says,  " think  because  I  feel."  Then  he  says,  "Be- 


32  M'ANS  GREATEST 

cause  I  feel  and  Think,  I  AM."  Thus  Life  is  con- 
verted into  sensation,  then  into  Thought,  and 
these  two  make  the  Conscious  Man,— the  I  AM. 
In  all  the  change  there  is  no  loss  of  original  force. 
Only  a  change  is  given  to  the  direction  and,  pos- 
sibly, to  the  velocity,  of  atoms,  in  which  the  two 
forms  offeree  lie  in  potentiality,  and  this  change 
gives  that  form  of  motion  we  call  Life.  Thought 
is  Force,  therefore  Life  must  be.  This  has  the  Great 
Discovery  done  for  science: — It  has  discovered  Life. 
Life  as  a  mode  of  motion  is  limitless.  From  simple 
protoplasmic  cell,  it  manifests  through  growth. 
Growth  is  but  the  play  of  these  forces  in  constant 
change.  Life  is  not  change;  Life  is  Power  and  it 
manifests  through  change.  Could  Life  remain 
constant  but  the  billionth  part  of  a  second,  it 
would  be  annihilated.  Eternal  motion  means  eter- 
nal change. 

Life  is  a  constant  stream  of  power  flowing  into 
expression  in  millions  of  forms,  but  all  from  the 
One  Source.  It  builds  its  organism  for  manifesta- 
tion by  transformation  of  itself,  just  as  electricity 
is  changed  to  light  by  the  conservation  of  force. 
Light  is  not  electricity.  Light  is  Light,  whether 
from  sun,  combustion,  or  electricity.  So  when 
thought  manifests,  it  is  not  Life,  but  thought. 
Life  is  limitless,  indestructible,  convertible  into 
thought.  It  is  first  converted  into  feeling.  This 
conversion  is  accomplished  by  means  of  the  senses. 
In  this  word  *  'senses,  "we  have  the  key  to  a  further 
analysis  of  Life's  changes. 

Sensation  is  the  first  change  in  the  transformations 
of  Human  Life.  Before  we  felt,  we  were  not  indi- 
viduals. We  were  only  potential  power  in  the 
One.  Feeling  is  the  first  step  toward  individuality. 
Potentials  of  Infinity  are  we  still.  It  will  take  all 
eternity  to  manifest  all  these  possibilities.  We  are 
manifesting  and,  because  we  are  manifesting,  we 


DISCOVERY.  ...  33 

are.  By  virtue  of  this  recognition  of  our  own  ex- 
istence, we  are  individuals.  Should  the  Ego  ever 
cease  to  feel,  it  would  cease  to  be  an  Ego.  It  would 
become  only  a  possibility  in  Infinity. 
Individuality  begins  with  feeling.  With  feeling, 
consciousness  begins.  Individuality  becomes  per- 
fected with  Self-consciousness.  When  the  indivi- 
dual can  say, "I  am,"  he  has  attained  perfection  as 
an  individual,  and  has  won  immortality. 
Consciousness  is  only  the  recognition  by  the  Ego 
of  that  which  is  not  itself.  This  recognition  conies 
from  contact  with  some  other  force.  The  Ego  re- 
sponds. It  thus  knows  itself.  From  sensation 
come  the  special  senses.  These  are  only  varieties 
of  feeling.  Feeling  is  the  motion  the  Ego  sends 
out.  Thus  we  rightly  say:  an  e-motion — an  out- 
motion. 

As  Life  is  limitless,  so  is  emotion.  The  most  pow- 
eriul  emotion,  we  call  Love.  From  emotion,  by 
conservation,  comes  Thought.  Life  is  thus  chang- 
ed in  form,  but  not  in  potential.  Thought,  then, 
is  as  limitless  as  is  Life  and  Emotion.  Thought  is 
Life  manifest  through  the  cerebrum.  Love  is 
Life  manifest  through  all  the  rest  of  the  nervous 
system.  Thus  again  do  we  find  Thought  as  Power. 
How  great  the  error  to  call  thoughts  "things." 
They  are  not  things,  but  thought  creates  things. 
Things  are  made  out  of  thought,  as  one  form  of 
power,  in  union,  or  combination,  with  some  other 
form  or  forms  of  power.  Electricity  is  not  a  thing. 
It  is  power.  When  it  is  in  resistance  with  some 
other  form  of  power,  then  we  call  the  resultant 
things.  A  thunderbolt  is  a  thing,  but  it  is  electric- 
ity, plus  the  resistance  and  attraction  of  other 
forces.  No  thing  is  ever  formed  from  one  form  of 
force  alone.  Thought  enters  into  combination 
with  other  forms  of  force  and  builds  body;  then, 
through  hands,  it  builds  whatever  it  wills.  It  is 


34  MAN'S  GREATEST 

silently  building,  in  union  with  silent  forces,  still 
other  things  as  yet  unrecognized. 
Thus  Life  and  Thought  are  no  longer  unknown 
forces.  As  we  know  electricity,  we  know  them. 
We  will  learn  to  use  thought  in  carrying  out  our 
desires,  as  we  now  use  electricity  and  chemical  force 
in  telegraph  and  cannon  to  carry  out  our  purposes 
in  other  fields  of  activity. 

Thought  is  Love  transformed.  Like  Thought  and 
Life,  Love  is  limitless.  It  is  the  e-motion  of  the 
Ego.  There  is  but  one  possible  out-motion,  there- 
fore Love  is  the  only  possible  emotion.  As  it  is 
not  Life  and  death,  but  more  or  less  Life,  so  it  is 
not  Love  and  hate,  but  more  or  less  Love.  Love  is 
the  Master  Passion.  We  are  in  the  habit  of  so 
naming  only  those  states  of  intense  passion,  but 
this  is  naming  only  a  degree,  and  not  the  emotion. 
The  one  motion  from  the  Soul  is  directed  and  con- 
trolled by  different  thoughts.  It  is  the  thought 
accompaniment  that  differs  and  is  named,  and  not 
the  emotion.  There  is  onhr  Love.  Wherever  is  the 
most  perfect  manifestation  of  the  Indwelling  God, 
there  is  the  most  perfect  manifestation  of  Love. 
Conversely,  where  there  is  the  most  perfect  mani- 
festation of  Love,  there  is  the  most  perfect  mani- 
festation of  Life.  For  Life  and  Love  are  one.  Love 
is  only  Life  in  expression.  Let  Life  manifest  in 
Love,  and  there  is  health.  People  are  sick  and  die 
because  they  do  not  love  enough.  The  streets  are 
filled  with  dead  and  dying  persons,  dying  because 
they  will  not  let  Life  flow  through  them  into  ex- 
pression. Repression  is  death. 
Were  it  not  for  Love,  there  would  be  no  reproduc- 
tion of  the  species.  But  for  Love,  no  daily  repro- 
duction of  the  body.  Love  is  the  measure  of  life. 
Corrolary: — To  be  in  health  and  enjoy  life,  we  must 
be  loving.  Whenever  we  give  any  lesser  degree  of 
Love  than  normal,  then  cells  created  by  the  larger 


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degrees  die.  This  decay  causes  poison  and  disease 
is  the  result.  Cure:— More  Love. 
Here,  in  a  nutshell,  is  the  whole  of  mental  science. 
Here,  in  the  same  shell,  is  the  whole  of  Professor 
Elmer  Gates'  chemical  discovery  regarding  the 
effects  of  emotions  upon  health.  Have  no  ill-feel- 
ings, no  ill-thoughts,  would  you  have  health.  Be 
happy  and  you  will  be  healthy.  It  is  happiness 
that  creates  health.  The  rule  of  science  is  that  of 
Jesus:  "Love  the  Lord  (within)  with  all  thy  heart, 
soul  and  mind.  Love  thy  neighbor  as  thyself." 
Hereon  hang  all  the  mental  and  physical  sciences. 
But  when  Love  passes  through  the  brain  it  becomes 
thought.  Thought  is  limitless.  Life  and  Thought 
are  one.  To  think  is  to  live.  Only  as  we  think, 
we  live.  The  measure  of  our  thought  is  the  meas- 
ure of  our  life.  The  thinker  is  a  healthful  person. 
But  do  not  confound  the  thinker  with  the  reasoner. 
Thinking  is  the  spontaneous  action  of  the  mind. 
It  is  Life  in  activity.  It  is  spiritual  activity.  Rea- 
soning is  mere  intellectual  activity .  It  is  not  think- 
ing. It  is  arranging  Thoughts  that  are  dead;  they 
have  an  objective  value,  but  are  spiritually  dead. 
Reason  is  for  the  objective  life.  The  Soul  knows.  It 
perceives  Truth.  The  intellect  applies  Truth  thus 
perceived  to  the  needs  of  the  objective  life.  But 
to  try  to  live  by  reason  is  like  man  trying  to  live 
off  of  stones  for  bread.  Man  does  not  live  by 
material  food,  but  by  every  thought  that  cometh 
from  the  Sub-conscious  (The  Inner  God)  into  the 
conscious  life. 

Love  and  Thought,  by  the  conversion  of  energy, 
are  only  transformed  Life.  Therefore,  to  think, 
and  to  love,  is  the  all  of  Life. 

When  the  Human  Soul  came  to  say,  "I  think  and 
I  feel,"  then,  because  it  had  power  to  decide  upon 
its  manifestations  and  to  choose  pleasure  from 
pain,  it  became  Self-conscious.  Through  this 


36  MAN'S  GREATEST 

choice,  it  became  self-creative.  It  therefore  cannot 
die.  Every  act  of  self-consciousness  is  an  act  of 
re-creation.  It  may  change  its  environment;  may, 
through  this  Law  of  Conservation,  change  the 
manner  of  manifestation,  but  "I"  must  henceforth 
ever  be  "I,"  because  it  must  ever  know  that  it  is 
not  something  else.  Thus  has  Telepathy  solved 
the  problem  of  immortality,  solved  it  by  the  same 
law  that  has  solved  the  indestructibility  of  force. 
The  greatest  of  all  discoveries  has  demonstrated 
the  necessity  of  immortality,  through  the  trans- 
formation of  unconscious,  undifferentiated,  force, 
into  differentiated  and  conscious  forms  of  force, 
and  these  again  into  individualized  and  self-con- 
scious forms.  From  Motion,  Self-conscious  motion 
has  been  evolved,  and  the  purpose  of  the  Absolute 
is  accomplished.  Henceforth  with  this  Self-con- 
scious form  which  we  call  Ego,  the  Absolute  has 
no  place  as  master.  Life  is  subject  to  the  Self-con- 
scious One — MAN.  The  steps  of  this  evolution  are 
easily  traced  in  the  slower  vibrations  we  call  mat- 
ter by  biology.  Here  we  have  traced  them  in  the 
higher  vibrations  of  spirit.  The  missing  links  in 
the  chain  of  evidence,  that  Prof.  Dolbear  says  are 
wanting,  are  found. 

If  it  could  be  shown  that  Life  itself  and  the  mind  of  man  were 
in  some  way  associated  with  atoms  of  some  sort  *  *  *  the  hopes 
and  longings,  cherished  by  mankind,  for  a  continuous  existence 
would  give  way  to  convictions  as  strong  as  one  has  in  any 
physical  phenomena. — Prof.  E.  A.  Dolbear,  in  "Matter,  Ether, 
and  Motion." 


ESSA.Y 


VIBRATIONS 

The  Soul  is  a  harp,  I  remember, 

Where  vibrating  cords  are  of  Consciousness  strung, 
And  Cosmos  forever  is  harper, 

Who  strolled  down  the  ages  measured  by  sun 

With  songs  of  the  mighty  Becoming. 

—Prof.  W.J.  Powell,  in  "The  Monist." 
It  nettles  one  that  Truth  should  be  so  simple.— Goethe. 
There  is  no  speech;  there  are  no  words;  their  voice  is  not  heard; 
but  their  melody  extendeth  through  all  the  world. — Lesser's 
translation  of  the  Psalms. 

The  language  of  tone  is  the  language  of  the  spheres;  it  is  the 
language  of  the  universal  world;  it  is  the  language  of  the 
angels. — Dr.  C.  W.  Emerson. 

The  whole  fabric  of  human  thought  and  human  emotion  is 
built  up  of  likeness  and  unlikenessjust  as  much  as  the  material 
world,  in  all  its  beauty,  is  built  up  out  of  undulations  among 
invisible  molecules.—; Jo hn  Fiske,  in  " Through  Nature  to  God." 
The  atoms  of  the  indifferent  molecules  are  held  together  with 
varying  degrees  of  tightness— they  are  tuned,  as  it  were,  to 
notes  of  different  pitch. — Prof.  Tyndall. 

Thirty-two  vibrations  per  second  equal  the  lowest  tone  ear  can 
catch;  32,768  vibrations  the  highest.  *  *  *  The  vibrations  of 
the  red  ray  are  450  thousand  millions  per  second;  those  of  the 
violet  are  750  thousand  millions  per  second. — Prof.  Crooks. 
The  lowest  tone  perceived  by  the  human  ear  is  a  vibration  of 
24  per  second;  the  highest  is  4,700  per  second.  The  lowest 
note  of  the  piano  is  24  per  second,  too  low  to  be  perceived  as 
tone.  The  highest  key  is  3,500.  Highest  on  the  piccolo  is 
5,700.  Highest  pitch  of  man's  voice. is  64;  of  woman's,  1,044. 
--Sydney  Lanier. 

From  the  extreme  red  to  the  extreme  violet,  between  which  are 
embraced  all  the  colors  visible  to  the  human  eye,  the  rapidity 
of  vibrations  steadily  increases,  the  length  of  the  other  waves 
produced  by  these  vibrations  diminishing  in  the  same  propor- 
tions. I  say,  "Visible  to  the  human  eye,"  because  there  may  be 


38  M'ANS  GREATEST 

eyes  capable  of  receiving  visual  impressions  that  do  not  affect 
ours.  There  is  a  vast  store  of  rays,  or  more  correctly  waves, 
beyond  the  red,  and  also  beyond  the  violet,  which  are  incompe- 
tent to  excite  our  vision;  so  that,  could  the  whole  length  of  the 
spectrum,  visible  and  invisible,  be  seen  by  the  same  eye,  its 
length  would  be  vastly  augmented.— Prof.  Tynda.ll,  in  "The 
New  Fragments." 

Particles  in  vibration  strike  our  nerve  points  in  one  way  and 
we  see  light,  or  color;  in  another  way  and  we  feel  heat.  Our 
nerves  and  brains  transmute  the  motions  into  forms  of  sensa- 
tion. The  brain  is  the  translator  of  motion  into  images;  of 
sensation  into  ideas.  There  is  no  reason  why  there  should 
be  any  limit  to  the  modes  of  molecular  or  etherial  motion;  but 
our  senses,  as  we  call  our  translators,  are  but  few  in  number, 
hence  we  recognize  but  few  of  them. — Peter  C.  Austin,  Ph.  D. 
P.  C.  S.,  in  Christian  Register. 

Lord  Kelvin,  the  greatest  physicist  in  the  world,  has  this  year 
come  out  with  a  paper  which  casts  a  doubt  011  the  prevailing 
molecular  and  ether  theories.  He  thinks  there  is  no  definite 
limit  to  the  universe.  He  says  that  the  dynamic  theory  which 
asserts  that  light  and  heat  are  modes  of  motion,  is  at  present 
obscured  by  two  clouds. — Prof.  John  Towbridge,  of  Harvard 
University,  in  San  Francisco  Examiner. 

Since,  through  Telepathy ,  thought  is  demonstrated 
to  be  a  mode  of  motion,  it  follows  that  whatever 
we  have  found  to  be  true  of  one  mode,  must  be 
true  of  all  modes,  for  these  modes  are  only  different 
rates  of  speed;  or,  what  is  the  same  thing,  are  of 
different  pitch.  Thought  is  subject  to  the  same 
laws,  to  the  same  regularity,  to  the  same  methods 
of  control,  and  the  same  methods  of  study,  as  are 
light  and  sound.  Of  these  two  modes  of  motion, 
we  know  the  most.  Music  is  the  most  perfect  of 
the  methods  we  have  of  studying  motion.  Sound 
is  slow  enough  to  measure.  It  can  easily  be 
handled  by  the  human  will. 

Through  the  study  of  light  and  tone,  we  find  that 
vibrations  pass  through  octaves.  There  is  a  reg- 
ularity and  a  system,  and  that  order  can  be  under- 
stood and  followed  in  composition.  He  who  fol- 
lows that  order,  wins  by  touching  the  human  Soul. 
When  the  right  combinations  are  made,  the  Soul 


DISCOVERY.  ...  39 

is  touched;  that  is,  it  vibrates  in  response.  Sym- 
pathetic vibration  is  established. 
Here  we  have  the  key  to  the  practice  of  Mental 
Healing;  to  the  power  of  the  orator;  to  the  power 
of  song,  cantata,  picture,  statue,  storm,  fire,  and 
whatever  in  the  external  starts  a  vibration,  an 
emotion,  within. 

Thought  being  a  form  of  force,  it  passes  in  vibra- 
tions or,  in  better  terms,  in  undulatory  waves  from 
brain  to  brain.  Feeling  being  also  a  mode  of  mo- 
tion, it  passes  in  similar  waves  from  soul  to  soul. 
The  difference  in  the  two  is  similar  to  the  difference 
between  sound  and  light.  Both  are  ONE  in  origin, 
but  differ  in  speed.  Thus  Emotion  and  Thought 
differ.  The  merely  mental  healer  cures  by  the  force 
of  thought,  which  awakens  sympathetic  vibration 
in  the  brain  of  the  patient,  just  as  striking  C  in 
one  octave  on  the  piano  causes  the  C  in  the  other 
octaves  to  vibrate,  or  as  the  violin  on  the  table 
vibrates  when  certain  cords  are  played  upon  the 
piano.  But  the  spiritual  healer  cures  by  awaken- 
ing the  same  sympathetic  vibration  in  the  Soul, 
through  love.  When  the  love  nature  is  awak- 
ened and  Thought,  by  Suggestion,  directs  it,  then 
is  the  healing  power,  strongest.  This  can  be  a  fact 
only  in  those  most  highly  developed  spiritually. 
In  these  it  is  limitless  in  its  power  for  good.  It  is 
typified  in  Jesus,  who  spent  his  whole  life  in  doing 
good;  loving  so  much,  that  those  who  came  into 
His  presence  were  healed.  This  development  is 
possible  to  all.  We  have  only  to  raise  the  pitch  of 
our  radiations  from  those  we  now  have  to  those 
of  a  higher  octave.  Love  will  develop  this.  If  we 
Love  enough,  we  shall  not  only  be  whole  ourselves 
but  will  be  wholesome  to  all  who  meet  us, — to  all 
of  whom  we  think. 

As  the  vibrations  of  electricity  pass  where  sound 
will  not,  so  will  thought  go  where  electricity  will 


4-0  MAN'S  GREATEST 

not,  and  love  will  go  where  thought  will  not. 
Sound-waves  will  not  pass  long  distances  over  the 
wire.  Electricity  will.  So  man  loads  the  electric- 
wave  with  a  sound-wave  of  his  choice,  and  elec- 
tricity, which  was  ready  to  go  that  way,  carries 
it.  Thought  and  Love  work  together  in  the  same 
ways.  Love  goes,  but  it  must  carry  the  Thought- 
wave  to  produce  the  conscious  and  the  chosen  effect. 
Love  alone  would  never  cure  without  a  thought 
of  health  accompanying  it.  It  would  intensify  the 
activity  of  the  soul  in  the  way  it  was  going.  Love 
is  help  in  the  way  of  power,  but  it  is  not  directive. 
Thought— the  will  of  the  conscious  man— must 
come  in  to  give  direction.  Suggestion  must  be  that 
the  chosen  activity  can  be.  Otherwise  there  will  be 
activity,  without  self-direction. 
The  Force  that  directs  individual  expression  is 
Thought.  The  Force  that  is  directed  is  Love. 
The  time  will  come  when,  through  the  demonstra- 
tions of  Telepathy  and  the  study  of  Suggestion, 
man  will  study  Thought  and  Love,  as  he  now 
studies  light  and  sound.  He  will  formulate  his 
knowledge  of  these  into  science  and  develop  an  Art 
of  Thinking  and  Loving.  The  promise  and  the 
prophecy  of  this  is  herein  the  present  schools  of 
Mental  Science,  and  in  the  fast  developing  Art  of 
Suggestion. 

Thus  do  the  phenomena  of  Telepathy  contain 
within  them  more  for  the  good  of  the  race,  contain 
more  promise  for  the  future  of  man  than  all 
the  previous  facts  he  has  gathered.  Thus  is  it  that 
when  man  demonstrated  Thought  to  be  a  form 
of  Force,  to  be  a  mode  of  motion,  he  made  his 
Greatest  Discovery. 

All  that  we  know  of  Vibration  is  true  of  Thought 
and  Love  as  forms  of  Vibration.  As  other  forms 
of  motion  have  been  studied,  so  can  these  two, 
which  we  now  throw  into  the  catagory  of  force, 


DISCOVERY.   ...  41 

be  studied.  As  all  lesser  forces  are  less  only  -when 
compared  with  some  other  forms  of  lower  pitch, 
and  as  all  lesser  forms  are  subject  to  the  greater, 
it  follows  logically  and  scientifically  that  all  other 
forms  of  force  are  subject  to  the  greatest  form, 
Thought.  They  will  obey  human  will.  Thus  is 
Thought  master  of  all  the  other  forms  of  the  One 
Universal  Energy.  Love  and  Thought  being  ONE 
in  Man,  it  follows  that  Love  is  the  only  manifesta- 
tion of  the  Absolute.  Thought  is  the  Individual 
expression;  Love,  the  Absolute  expression.  The 
design  of  evolution  being  to  bring  the  Individual 
into  supremacy,  to  bring  Man  into  "the  Kingdom," 
it  follows  that  Love,  which  is  the  highest  mode  of 
motion  in  the  ONE,  should  thus  be  subject  to  the 
only  form  of  individual,  self-directed  motion, 
Thought.  Love  must  be  thought-directed. 
In  his  Thpught,each  man  differs  from  all  other  men. 
His  individual  stamp  is  placed  upon  his  perception 
of  Absolute  Truth.  But  Love  is  in  each  individual, 
one  and  the  same.  Thus  does  Individuality  con- 
sist only  in  the  pitch,  or  in  the  octave  of  thought 
in  which  each  individual  moves.  As  these  octaves 
are  limitless  and  as  there  is  no  limit  to  the  possible 
range  of  pitch,  it  follows  that  there  is  no  limit  to 
the  variety  of  Human  Life.  ONE  in  origin,  ONE 
in  substance,  ONE  in  possibility,  ONE  in  the  Abso- 
lute Truth,  we  are  Individuals  only  in  the  sphere  of 
Thought.  Only  to  the  degree  that  a  person  thinks 
for  himself  does  he  attain  Individuality.  To  Think 
is  to  be  an  Individual.  To  Love  is  to  Live.  Love 
is  the  primal  energy;  Thought  is  the  Human. 
Thought  can  raise  or  lower  the  pitch  of  life.  Love 
can  keep  life  in  the  animal  scale,  or  octave,  where 
man  started,  or  it  can  raise  it  daily  in  pitch  toward 
the  Ideal  Man,  as  typified  in  Jesus  and  other  seers. 
Through  Telepathy,  this  is  demonstrated.  It 
demonstrates  that  each  person  has  the  power. 


42  MAN'S  GREATEST 

by  his  thought,  to  depress  or  raise  the 
dominant  note  of  his  life;  that  each  person  can 
raise  or  lower  the  pitch  of  his  expression;  that  he 
can  control  himself  in  all  his  being,  thus  becoming 
self-controlled. 

The  possibilities  of  this  Discovery  cannot  as  yet 
be  dreamed,  but  that  it  is  the  Greatest  of  all  human 
discoveries,  the  century  will  demonstrate.  Thought 
-will  yet  control,  where  now  we  use  the  lesser  forces. 
Nature's  finer  forces  will  need  no  crude  machinery; 
\vill  need  no  dynamos,  no  locomotives,  no  wires. 
The  only  dynamo  is  the  Human  Soul;  its  wires 
and  tracks  will  be  Thoughts.  But  the  material 
world  will  be  the  play-ground  of  the  Conscious 
Life  in  Man,  and  he,  because  he  is  "Conscious  Law," 
be  "King  of  Kings." 


VI. 


THE  VICTORY  OVER  DEATHS  .*  * 
Levitation,  Materialization,  and  De-materialization* 

The  final  enthronement  of  man  over  all  material  things  and 
•conditions,  is  the  very  end  or  purpose  of  creation,  or  of  the  cul- 
mination of  life  in  this  world.— Dr.  J.  H.  Dewey,  in  "The  New 
Age  Gospel." 

Thou  hast  made  him  a  little  lower  than  thyself  and  hast  crown- 
ed him  with  glory  and  honor;  thou  madest  him  to  have  do- 
minion over  the  works  of  thy  hands;  thou  hast  put  all  things 
under  his  feet. — Psalmist. 

This  fact  (Telepathy)  has  a  more  tremendous  import  than  any 
discovery  of  the  age. — Shelton,  in  Christian. 
This  new  science  (Telepathy)  is  yet  in  its  formative  stage,  but 
in  its  possible  applications  in  the  realm  of  psychology  and 
mental  development,  it  promises  to  vastly  transcend  in  its 
emancipating  and  revolutionizing  results,  even  those  of  elec- 
trical science  in  the  realm  of  physics.— Dr.  Dewey,  in  Christian. 
The  movements  of  heavy  objects  without  any  possible  contact, 
by  Slade,  was  of  common  occurrence. — Prof.  Zollner,  in  "Trans- 
cendental Physics." 

Slade  laid  a  book  and  a  bit  of  pencil  on  the  slate.  *  *  *  The  book 
vanished  and,  after  having  been  looked  for  everywhere,  it  fell 
several  times  from  the  ceiling. — Baron  Hcllenbach,  in  "Letter 
in  Transcendental  Physics/' 

She  at  times  saw  him  (D.  D.  Home)  while  he  was  reading,  sus- 
pended in  the  air  some  3  or  4  feet  over  the  chair  in  which  he 
had  been  sitting.— Bulwer  Lytton,  in  "All  the  Year  Round." 
On  one  occasion,  when  a  number  of  friends  were  present,  Home 
desired  the  windows  to  be  opened  and  he  floated  out  of  one 
and  into  another,  70  feet  above  the  ground.— Report  by  Lord 
Lindsey  of  a  seance  at  Lord  Amberley's  castle. 
The  vase  was  a  large  one  of  stone,  holding  some  six  "gallons  of 
water,  yet  as  the  Fakeer's  knotted  staff  was  pointed  toward 
it,  it  began  to  slide  along  the  court,  reached  the  open  glass 
doors  which  divided  the  apartment  *  *  *  There  it  paused,  then, 
as  if  reflection  had  ensued,  it  slowly  floated  up  a  loot  from  the 


\ 
44  MAN'S  GREATEST 

ground,  came  in  through  the  glass  doors,  then  gently  subsided 
to  the  ground  and  still  slid  on,  until  it  stopped  at  the  Fakeer's 
feet.— "Art  Magic." 

If  such  things  (thought  transference  and  movements  of  physical 
bodies  without  physical  contact)  are,  they  are  of  more  impor- 
tance to  philosophy  than  the  whole  body  of  physical  knowledge 
we  now  have,  and  of  vast  importance  to  humanity. — Prof.  A. 
E.  Dolbear,  in  "Matter,  Ether  and  Motion." 

I  predict  that,  when  once  he  has  found  the  way,  he  will  have  no 
use  for  all  the  cumbrous  machinery  called  science,  nor  for  much 
of  the  present  mechanical  or  motive  power.  Occult  manifesta- 
tions of  the  One  Power  will  do  all  that  is  now  done,  and  more, 
with  less  labor,  cost  or  friction,  than  is  possible  even  with 
liquid  air.  "Chalk  marks  don't  draw  cars,"  once  said  a  rail- 
road man.  But  we  are  much  nearer  that  time  when  some  man- 
ifestation of  force  less  tangible  than  chalk  marks  will  draw 
cars  than  was  the  possibility  of  lightning  drawing  them  when 
Franklin  drew  it  from  the  clouds.— Henry  Harrison  Brown, 
in  "How  to  Control  Fate  through  Suggestion." 

The  laws  of  the  Conservation  of  energy,  evolution,  etc.,  which 
express  the  Unity  of  Nature,  are  at  present  dead  laws  and 
statements,  being  merely  intellectual;  but  when  man  comes  to 
feel,  as  a  distinct  sensation,  his  continuity  with  external  objects 
and  his  absolute  inward  unity  with  all  grades  of  creatures, — 
man,  animals,  plants,  etc., — Nature  One,  namely  Self— then 
those  laws,  or  facts,  will  have  their  right  and  everlasting  place 
in  his  cosmos,  the  outer  or  intellectual  form  will  drop  off,  but 
the  facts  themselves — the  feelings — will  be  found  to  be  eternal. 
— Edward  Carpenter,  in  "Modern  Science." 

Thought  is  Power!  Where  is  the  limit  to  Power? 
What  is  the  limit  to  Power?  When  these  questions 
are  answered,  the  limit  to  Thought  is  found.  Power 
in  every  manifestation  is  limitless.  Limitation  is 
in  the  form  of  manifestation;  in  Power,  never. 
All  is  Motion!  One  Energy!  One  Motion!  One 
Power!  One  God!  These  affirmations  are  synony- 
mous. Manifestations  differ:  Cause  is  One.  *  'Dif- 
ferences of  administration,  but  the  same  Lord," 
said  Paul,  with  rare  insight.  "Diversities  of  opera- 
tion, but  it  is  the  same  God,"  he  says  again.  Again 
he  says,  showing  that  the  words  had  to  him  the 
same  variety  of  meaning  that  we  give  to  Energy, 


DISCOVERY.  ...  45 

Motion,  and  Spirit:  "All  these  worketh  that  one 
and  selfsame  Spirit."  It  has  taken  two  thou- 
sand years  for  man  to  attain  the  scientific  percep- 
tion of  the  fact  which  Paul  perceived  intuitively. 
The  discovery  of  the  Law  of  Conservation  of 
Force  enabled  man,  sixty  years  ago,  to  say:  "All 
Energy  is  One."  Man's  Greatest  Discovery  enables 
him  now  to  say:  Thought  is  a  form  of  Energy!  The 
Universe  is  one  Substance,  whose  manifestation  is 
Motion. 

"One  God,  one  Law,  one  Element, 

And  one  divine,  far  off  event, 

Toward  which  the  whole  creation  moves," 

says  a  later  poet  than  Paul,  from  the  same  intui- 
tion. 

What  is  the  limit  of  Power?  The  limit  of  wind, 
wave,  water,  steam,  electric  power?  What  is  the 
limit  of  light,  magnetism,  X-ray,  heat,  and  grav- 
ity? They  are  limitless. 

By  the  use  of  musical  tones,  Keely  raised  a  power 
he  could  not  control.  It  destroyed  his  every  ma- 
chine, softening  Bessemer  steel  to  the  consistency 
of  putty.  He  no  more  knew  the  Power  he  had 
evoked,  than  did  Franklin  know  that  which  he 
drew  from  the  cloud  to  make  chips  and  straws 
dance  between  his  key  and  the  ground. 
Where  is  the  limit  to  Electricity?  There  is  none. 
What  is  the  limit  to  its  application?  Human  igno- 
rance! All  limitations  to  Power  in  any  direction 
are  those  imposed  by  man.  Nature  in  one  form  of 
motion  is  as  limitless  as  in  any  other.  Behind 
each  manifestation  of  Power  lies  Infinity.  Deep 
and  enduring  as  the  glacial  marks  on  the  granite 
ledge,  let  this  truth  be  etched  upon  your  intellect, 
then  you  will  have  no  trouble  with  my  thought. 
All  is  One  and  that  One  is  Omnipresent;  not  omni- 
present in  any  one  manifestation  of  Power,  but  in 
all.  The  possibility  of  Infinity  lies  behind  every 


46  MAN'S  GREATEST 

manifestation.    There  is   no  limit  to  Everpresent 
Power. 

Beyond  all  dream  of  man,  is  the  possibility  of  the 
One.  As  sand-grain  to  a  world,  is  any  dream  of 
achievement  compared  to  the  Possible.  Beyond 
the  possibilities  which  man  has  found  in  the  lower 
pitched  vibrations,  lie  those  which  he  now  dimly 
sees  in  the  vibrations  of  Thought  and  Love.  To 
know  Power,  to  apply  Power  is  the  whole  possible 
endeavor  of  man.  From  cave  to  " White  City," 
he  has  only  learned  how  to  apply  Power.  What 
Power  can  do,  he  can  do,  for  he  is  Power! 
Until  now,  he  has  sought  and  used  Power  outside 
himself.  Now,  through  his  Greatest  Discovery,— 
Thought  is  Power!  Love  is  Power!  Life  is  Power! — 
he  realizes  that  the  soul  is  only  a  CENTER  OF  POW- 
ER IN  POWER.  He  has  within  himself  all  Power. 
Thus  Man  has,  whenever  he  will  take  it,  Dominion 
over  all  other  manifestations  of  Power. 
Man  has  just  awakened  to  a  knowledge  of  his 
place  in  Unity.  He  is  entering  his  "kingdom." 
Where  Law  heretofore  ruled  him,  he  will  now,  as 
Conscious  Law,  rule  Law,  and  thus  BE  Law.  O, 
the  grandeur,  beauty,  glory,  and  the  Almightiness 
of  this  Discovery!  Lift  up  your  heads,  ye  eternal 
gates  and  the  king  of  glory  shall  come  in!  Who 
is  this  king  of  glory?  The  Lord  strong  and  mighty! 
But  that  Lord  is  Man,  coming  to  consciousness 
of  his  Power. 

Among  the  possibilities  that  lie  within  the  Power 
of  Thought  are  those  already  mentioned  and  others 
hinted  at,  in  the  excerpts  that  introduce  this  essay. 
Knowledge  is  but  the  recognition  of  Power.  Class- 
ified knowledge  is  Science.  Science  applied  is  Art. 
There  is  as  yet  no  Science  of  Thought,  and  but 
very  little  knowledge  of  it.  The  Art  of  Thinking 
is  almost  unknown. 
It  is  the  glory  of  the  new  century  that  it  starts 


DISCOVERY.  ...  4-7 

with  the  glimmerings  of  the  Light  which  will  yet 
illumine  all  mankind.  That  will  make  Illuminati 
of  every  one.  That  this  Light  is  now  unknown, 
"rejected  of  men,"  was  to  be  expected.  That  many 
who  have  seen  this  Star  in  the  West  are  blinded 
by  its  Light,  is  necessary  to  their  evolution.  But 
in  the  movements  called  "Spiritualism,"  Christian 
Science , "  "  Divine  Science , "  "  Mental  Science , ' '  there 
is  born  today  the  Savior  that  was  to  come.  Christ 
in  Its  second  coming  is  here!  The  Advent  already 
IS.  Light  has  broken  through  the  vestments  of 
mortality  and  Immortality  has  come  to  light  in 
the  discovery  of  Thought  as  Power. 
The  Science  of  Thought  has  begun.  The  Art  of 
Thinking  is  at  hand.  Man  is  learning  How  to 
think  and  What  to  think.  When  he  thinks  as  he 
can  and  will  think,  there  will  be  no  sickness,  disease, 
poverty,  accident,  suffering,  or  want.  This  is  as  scien- 
tific a  prophecy  as  was  ever  made  in  a  chemical 
laboratory.  "When  I  know  how  to  harness  steam," 
said  Watt.  When  any  one  knows  how  to  harness 
thought  to  his  desire,  then  will  he  not  only  mas- 
ter all  environment,  but  he  will  fulfill  the  prophecy 
of  Paul:  "The  last  enemy  to  be  destroyed  is  Death. ' ' 
Bodies  are  Thought-builded.  They  are  Thought- 
destroyed.  What  Thought  does  unconsciously 
under  Law,  Thought  can  do  consciously  under 
Law.  Thought  under  Law  builds  diseased  bodies. 
Thought  under  Conscious  Law  will  build  imperish- 
able bodies.  Thought  under  Law  destroys  bodies. 
Thought  under  Conscious  Law  will  regenerate 
bodies,  will  purify  them,  will  refine  them,  will  lift 
them  in  their  pitch  until  hands  that  feel  only,  and 
eyes  that  see  only,  on  the  plane  of  the  senses,  will 
also  see  and  feel,  at  will,  bodies  that  are  still  here 
but  unseen.  The  bodies  in  which  men  live,  when 
made  under  Conscious  Law  will  be  made  and  un- 
made at  pleasure,  as  the  possessor  shall  raise  or 


48  MAN'S  GREATEST 

lower  them  in  pitch,  just  as  the  musician  changes 
the  pitch  of  his  instrument.  This  Jesus  did.  "I 
-will  lay  down  my  life  and  I  will  take  it  up  again, ' ' 
he  said.  He  laid  his  body  in  the  tomb.  He  took 
it  up  again.  He  passed  through  closed  doors  at 
will.  He  ascended  in  the  scale  of  vibrations  until 
he  ''passed  out  of  sight"  of  the  gazers,  but  is  here 
still.  This  is  within  the  Power  of  Thought.  All 
can  and  all  will  do  this  when  they  THINK 
ARIGHT. 

Some  of  the  possibilities  of  Thought  are  shown 
in  the  transference  of  messages  from  mind 
to  mind,  the  transference  of  pictures  by  Clair- 
voyance or  of  individuality  by  Psychometry.  When 
I  hold  the  letter  of  an  absent  person,  a  stranger, 
and  once  come  into  sympathetic  vibration  with 
him,  I  become  him  for  the  time  being.  I  feel  as  he 
feels,  I  think  as  he  thinks,  I  act  as  he  acts,  for  I 
LET  his  thought  act  through  me  and  I  become 
transformed  for  the  time  being  into  his  image. 
Mental  Healing,  which  is  only  Thought  and  Love 
transference,  is  a  fact,  testified  to  by  thousands. 
Healing  by  Suggestion  is  testified  to  by  other  thou- 
sands; Magnetic  Healing,  by  millions.  Success  in 
ever}^  walk  of  life,  born  from  Right  Thinking,  is  tes- 
tified to  by  thousands  more.  Success  by  dollars, 
books  and  arms  is  giving  -way  to  Success  by 
Thought  alone. 

Horse  and  lion  tamer  and  serpent  charmer  succeed 
by  the  Power  of  Thought  alone.  Flora  Paris 
Howard  tells  in  her  book,  ''Idols  Dethroned,"  of 
clearing  a  fruit  garden  of  insects  by  concentrating 
thought  upon  them.  Mr.  Boucher,  whose  article 
appears  in  the  "Addenda"  to  this  book,  controls 
the  rattlesnake  on  the  prairie  by  thinking  to  it. 
Many  persons  tell  me  of  gaining  in  this  way  immu- 
nity from  flies,  fleas  and  mosquitoes.  Why  not? 
As  the  Mississippi  carries  driftwood,  so  -will  the 


DISCOVERY.  ...  49 

strong  radiations  from  an  individual  as  a  center 
of  Power  carry  away  all  undesirable  things,  from 
bacillus  to  man.  Facts  are  easily  found  by  him 
who  seeks  them,  that  testify  to  the  Power  of 
Thought  to  move  bodies  without  physical  contact. 
Some  things  seem  moved  by  persons  who  are  in 
bodies  we  do  not  see.  Wherever  they  are,  they  are 
human  still.  They  can  only  use  Power  that  is 
open  to  all.  When  these  facts  of  Telepathy  and 
Levitation  are  known,  the  observer  can  well  say, 
with  Professor  Dolbear  of  Tufft's  College,  that 
they  mean  more  for  the  future  of  mankind  than 
the  whole  body  of  phenomena  with  which  science 
at  present  deals.  Soon  will  scientists  see  that  all 
present  knowledge  is  primary  and  has  its  value 
only  as  the  first  rung  in  the  ladder  leading  from 
the  cave  of  matter  to  the  plain  of  Motion,  from 
the  darkness  of  body  to  the  sunlight  of  Spirit. 
As  Power  is  unlimited,  and  as  manifestations  differ 
only  in  the  pitch  of  vibrations,  we  may  learn  to  so 
raise  the  pitch  in  which  we  manifest  that  we  may 
become  invisible  to  those  who  can  manifest  only 
upon  the  Lower-Octaves-of-Humanity.  That  this 
is  possible,  that  it  is  scientific,  note  what  Art  is 
already  doing.  The  solid  iron  becomes  liquid  when 
man,  by  applying  heat,  raises  its  pitch.  Applying 
still  more  heat,  it  is  so  raised  in  its  vibrations  that 
it  passes  from  sight.  But  it  is  not  destroyed.  It 
still  IS.  The  Human  Intellect  cannot  yet  trace  it, 
but  it  exists  as  some  thingm  higher  oetaves.  Why 
may  it  not  be  the  foundation  upon  which  man,  in 
his  higher  octaves,  may  stand? 
When  I  go  into  a  chemical  laboratory,  if  I  do  not 
become  positive  to  the  atmosphere,  I  see  that 
whole  interior  of  the  room  as  a  transparent,  irri- 
descent  solid.  It  is  as  real  to  me  as  is  the  spectrum 
the  Professor  thro  ws  from  the  prism.  He  sees  but 
the  spectrum.  I  see  both  the  spectrum  and  the 


50  MAN'S  GREATEST 

vibrations  that  are  above  the  range  of  the  spec- 
trum. Because  I  so  see,  the  professor  thinks  me 
"a  little  off,"  if  he  does  not  say  something  more 
strongly  indicative  of  his  belief  in  my  insanity. 
Apply  this  fact  logically.  Here  is  the  demonstra- 
tion of  the  claims  so  many  make  for  physical  immor- 
tality. The  question  is  not,  Will  Mrs.  Eddy  or 
Mrs.  Wilmans  live  forever  without  passing  the 
change  we  call  death?  The  question  is,  Is  death 
a  necessity?  They  are  teaching  Truth.  They  may 
fail  to  demonstrate,  but  that  failure  will  only  be 
the  failure  of  those  who  failed  -where  Marconi  suc- 
ceeded. If  others  had  not  tried  and  failed,  he 
would  never  have  succeeded.  So,  sometime  it  will 
be  demonstrated  that  Death  is  an  unnecessary 
procedure  on  the  part  of  any  person;  then  the  Ego 
will  pass  to  the  higher  vibrations  without  it.  As 
iron  is  lifted,  by  the  intensifying  of  its  vibrations, 
from  solid  to  gaseous,  so  will  man  lift  himself.  He 
is  lifted  now  by  sudden  transition,  by  LAW.  He 
•will  lift  himself  as  Conscious  Law,  gradually.  By 
Law  he  now  goes  through  Death  to  other  oc- 
taves of  life  b}r  chemical  action.  By  Conscious  Law 
he  will  go  without  Death,  by  Thought  action. 
While  he  located  Life,  Cause  and  God  outside  him- 
self, he  was  subject  to  the  Unconscious  Law  that 
controlled  the  without.  When  he  locates  Cause  and 
God,  as  he  does  Life,  within  himself,  then  will  he 
BE  law.  Since  he  is  "Spirit  conscious  of  itself," 
since  he  says,  "I  AM!"  he  must  become  Conscious 
Law  and,  as  such,  he  passes  at  will  up  and  down 
the  scale  of  vibrations. 

All  who  once  had  these  coarse  bodies  we  call  mor- 
tal, are  now  somewhere  on  the  infinite  scale  of 
vibrations.  They  are  bodies  still.  They  who  made 
themselves  Light  before  the  change,  are  now  cen- 
ters of  Light;  are  not  in  bodies,  but  are  bodies  of 
Light.  Those  who  did  not  so  develop  while  in 


DISCOVERY.  ...  51 

these  mortal  bodies,  are  now  centers  of  less  radia- 
tion, and  are  bodies  of  the  grays,  merging  into  the 
blacks,  until  at  last  they,  who  lived  most  carnal- 
ly, are  in  blackness,  lost  even  to  clairvoyant  vision. 
The  only  difference  between  the  Caffir  Negro  and 
the  saintly  mother  is  the  place  each  occupies  in  the 
infinite  scale  of  radiations.  Each  person  is  ' 'sensi- 
ble" to  us  if  he  is  within  the  limit  of  our  perception. 
If  he  is  without  the  limit  of  our  recognition  of  vi- 
brations, he  does  not  exist  for  us. 
All  the  difference  between  the  cave-man  and  the 
scientist  who  finds  his  bones,  is  the  pitch  of  the 
radiations  that  come  from  each  as  a  center  of 
power.  The  modern  scientist  sees  and  knows 
more  than  he  knew  who  left  the  Neanderthall  skull. 
It  \vould  have  been  natural  for  the  cave-dweller  to 
deny  the  knowledge  of  Darwin,  but  it  is  insanity 
for  the  Darwins  of  today  to  deny  the  phenomena 
of  thought  as  presented  by  Mental  Science.  They 
who  will  not  accept  these  facts  are  mental  cave- 
dwellers.  They  are  living  in  matter — are  dwelling 
in  the  cave  of  the  body.  They  will  seem  to  the 
reader  of  this  book  in  the  year  2000  as  the  Mound 
Builders  seem  to  us. 

The  range  of  vibration  is  limitless.  Evolution  is 
but  the  passing  from  octave  to  octave  of  Life — God 
— and  making  It,  or  Him,  manifest  to  sense.  By 
Right  Thinking,  we  may  pass  thus  to  immortality 
as  easily  as  we  have  passed  from  post  horse  to 
electric  motor. 

This  possibility  has  been  prophesied  by  seer  and 
metaphysician.  But  it  is  the  claim  of  the  author 
that  this  is  the  first  time  that  the  prophecy  of 
Jesus  and  Paul  has  been  scientifically  demon- 
strated. No  scientific  demonstration  was  possible 
until  thought  had  been  demonstrated  as  a  Mode 
of  Motion.  That  once  determined,  all  the  rest 
follows  with  the  certainty  that  invention  followed 


52  MAN'S  GREATEST 

the  discovery  of  the  Law  of  Conservation.  By 
right  thinking ,  we  may  develop  our  sight  so  that 
-we  can  see  beyond  the  range  of  telescope.  In  the 
same  way ,  we  may  learn  to  live  above  the  plane  of 
the  senses. 

Mrs.  Eddy,  Mrs.  Wilmans,  T.  J.  Shelton  and  others 
have  seen  this  from  intuition  and  have  verified  it 
from  metaphysics.  Their  vision  is  true.  These 
essays  upon  "Man's  Greatest  Discovery"  is  the 
first  attempt  to  bring  Immortality  without  death 
into  harmony  with  physical  science,  and  to  make 
Thinking,  Living,  and  Immortality  parts  of  a 
Universal  Science,  whose  primary  chapter  is  Phys- 
ics, and  the  last  is  Soul. 

ALL  those  who  are  today  believing  and  teaching 
"The  Conquest  of  Death"  are  Johns  in  the  wilder- 
ness of  materiality ,  crying:  "Repent!  turn  in  your 
thought,  and  live  above  the  sense  life,  and  you 
shall  never  die.  Think,  'Live  forever/  and  you  will 
live  forever!" 

This  is  no  new  thought  to  me.  By  intuition,  I  saw 
it  in  1870.  I  began  to  lecture  in  1873  upon  "The 
Victory  over  Death,"  in  which  I  prophesied  death 
would  be  no  more.  It  was  then  only  a  logical 
conclusion.  For  these  thirty  years,  I  have  been 
seeking  and  \vaiting  for  the  scientific  evidence.  Not 
till  the  writing  of  these  essays  did  I  find  it.  In  do- 
ing so,  I  have  found  it  for  all  humanity.  The  seer 
comes  first,  with  his  vision;  the  philosopher  next, 
with  his  reason;  the  scientist  last,  with  his  Law. 
In  these  essays  is  given  the  Law.  They  are  more 
important  to  humanity  than  any  ever  before  given 
the  press.  I  know  this  is  an  extraordinary  claim. 
But  it  is  the  importance  of  the  Truth  presented 
and  not  the  man  who  writes,  nor  the  way  in 
which  they  are  given.  These  essays  are  a  center 
of  Thought  Vibrations  that  will  shed  Light  when 
I  am  forgotten.  I  am  the  instrument  for  Truth. 


DISCOVERY.  ...  53 

I  wish  no  credit  for  them — they  wrote  themselves. 
They  have  opened  to  me  a  new  world.  They  have 
lifted  me  into  the  seventh  heaven  with  Paul.  I 
KNOW  them  truth.  That  is  enough.  This  is  the 
first  time  I  have  thrust  my  personality  upon  my 
readers.  As  evidence  as  to  the  instrument  through 
whose  hand  Truth  wrote "Man's  Greatest  Discov- 
ery," this  must,  for  future  generations,  go  on  the 
record.  So  let  it  be! 

4i Man's  Greatest  Discovery,"  Telepathy,  banished 
death  from  the  world.  It  fulfills  the  promises  of 
the  Ages.  It  opens  the  door  for  the  new  century 
to  usher  in  the  Millennium.  *  'Death  is  swallowed 
up  in  Victory."  But  greater  than  this  is  the  proph- 
ecy of  Human  Power  given  us  by  the  Greatest 
of  Seers.  His  matchless  line,  that  is  at  once  per- 
fect poetry  and  perfect  science,  that  is  religion  and 
fact,  shall  close  this  series  of  essays,  written  from 
the  Illuminated  I  AM,  and  for  the  generations  that 
are  capable  of  hearing  the  Word, 

"And  Conscious  Law  is  King  of  kings." 


A  Successful  Experiment  in  Levitation.^ 

I  requested  a  warm  personal  friend  and  an  ex-pupil 
-who  possessed  a  power  of  concentration  I  have 
never  seen  surpassed,  one  who  in  his  youth  became 
a  most  successful  operator  in  the  Art  of  Sugges- 
tion, and  who  is  now  a  most  successful  healer,  to 
write  for  NOW  an  account  of  an  experiment  which 
he  once  related  to  me.  He  has  kindly  done  so.  It 
comes  as  a  demonstration  of  the  truth  in  "Man's 
Greatest  Discovery."  Here  is  his  letter: 

ABILENE,  KAN. 
Dear  Mr.  Brown: 

You  ask  me  to  relate  the  experiment  in  Suggestion  in  which  I 
caused  a  subject  to  float.  It  was  during  the  year  of  the  won- 
derful experiments  in  Hypnotism  and  Occult  Forces  that  at- 
tracted the  attention  of  my  friends  and  the  public— 1896. 
Having  spent  much  time  and  study  upon  the  Science  of  Hyp- 
notism and  the  Art  of  Healing,  my  principle-;  teachers  being 
Prof.  A.  W.  Connett  and  Henry  Harrison  Brown,  I  attained 
quite  a  notoriety  by  my  public  work.  Among  the  many  ex- 
periments that  seemed  to  border  on  the  miraculous,  and  yet 
are  only  a  demonstration  of  the  power  of  the  mind  over  the 
matter,  were  some  that  cause  us  to  believe  that  some  day  we 
shall  counteract  gravitation  by  mental  concentration.  My 
experiment  was  as  follows: — 

My  subject  was  a  physically  strong  gentleman,  weighing  about 
one  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  He  had  been  with  me  a  number 
of  years  and  I  had  experimented  with  him  from  my  first  lessons. 
He  was  a  perfect  sensitive.  Having  never  failed  in  any  experi- 
ment, and  believing  that  all  things  are  possible  to  him  who 
knows  the  law,  I  decided  to  try  to  counteract  the  action  of 

fravity. 
had  him  lie  on  his  back  upon  a  carpeted  floor.    I  determined 
that  I  would  raise  him  from  the  floor  without  any  physical  aid. 
I  believed  this  possible  from  the  fact  that  arms  and  limbs  could 


DISCOVERY.  ...  55 

be  raised  by  my  simply  making  passes  over  them  and  willing 
them  to  move. 

I  then  placed  him  in  a  cataleptic  condition,  causing  his  muscles 
to  become  perfectly  rigid.  At  the  same  time,  I  suggested  to 
him  that  he  would  be  raised  from  the  floor  simply  by  my  Sug- 
gestion. I  made  passes  from  his  head  to  his  feet,  as  if  I  was 
charging  his  body  with  my  magnetic  force,  all  the  while  orally 
Suggesting,  and  concentrating  my  own  mind  on  this  thought: 
"Now  you  are  in  a  perfectly  susceptible  condition  and  will  re- 
ceive every  \vord  I  give  you.  You  cannot  hear  nor  think  of 
anything  but  what  I  allow  you  to  think.  My  thoughts  are 
your  thoughts  and  my  will  is  your  Law.  Your  body  is  be- 
coming lighter.  It  is  losing  weight.  As  I  charge  it  with  my 
magnetism,  I  take  away  all  resisting  force  and  your  body  be- 
comes lighter  than  a  feather.  The  least  wind  will  blow  you 
away.  Now  you  are  getting  lighter,  lighter,  lighter,  and  you 
soon  will  float.  You  are  now  gradually  rising;  you  are  float- 
ing, floating.  You  are  floating." 

As  I  gave  the  last  suggestions,  after  making  the  long  passes 
from  head  to  feet,  I  placed  my  hands  over  his  breast  and  raised 
them  as  if  to  raise  him  with  them.  As  I  did  so,  his  body  lifted 
clear  from  the  floor  with  the  exception  of  his  feet.  I  passed  my 
hand  along  under  him  until  I  reached  his  feet,  so  that  1  know 
his  body  was  several  inches  from  the  floor.  It  was  thus  sus- 
pended for  at  least  one  minute,  then  it  gradually  settled  down. 
He  relaxed  and  awoke. 

The  experiment  produced  a  peculiar  effect  upon  the  subject.  For 
several  days  afterwards  he  said  that  he  felt  as  if  he  was  walk* 
ing  in  the  air  and  was  light-headed.  He  refused  to  experiment 
farther. 

I  firmly  believe  that,  with  repeated  trials,  his  body  could  have 
been  made  to  float.  Yours  for  Love  and  Truth, 

OTIS  L.  BOUCHER,  D.  M. 


Verifications  of  the  Position  of  the  Author, 

In  the  thought  of  this  Discovery,  attention  is  call- 
ed to  "Mack,  the  Boy  Wonder,"  and  his  feats  of 
overcoming  gravity.  The  editor  of  the  Magazine  of 
Mysteries  says:  "We  have  closely  questioned  him 
as  to  the  cause  of  his  strange  power.  'Years  of 
steadfast  concentration,'  was  his  reply." 


56  MAN'S  GREATEST 

Dr.  L.  Miller  of  Duluth,  Minn.,  sends  an  interest- 
ing letter.  He  says: 

The  articles  upon  "Man's  Greatest  Discovery"  and  "The  Miss- 
ing Link,"  are  bringing  together -what  should  have  long  ago 
been  summarized,  for  Thought  is  Omnipotent  Creator.  I  am 
sure  that  a  great  truth  is  connected  with  breathing  the  "Breath 
of  Life"  with  simultaneous  physical  effort.  Mack,  the  Boy 
Wonder,  was  in  my  office  yesterday.  He  claims  that  he  does 
not  breathe  deeply  to  perform  levitation  of  the  body  while 
some  one  lifts  it  from  the  \vaist,  but  he  simply  concentrates  his 
mind  and  his  body  is  easily  lifted  up  to  the  heighth  of  the  lifter's 
head.  On  the  other  hand,  when  he  concentrates  against  being 
lifted,  a  man  has  great  trouble  in  raising  him  from  the  floor. 
Asked  for  an  explanation  of  this  gift,  he  says  it  is  psychic;  and 
indeed  this  seems  the  only  shadow  of  explanation.  He  says  he 
is  nervous,  and  thinks  his  power  may  in  time  leave  him.  He 
can  also  increase  his  weight  on  the  scales. 

So  writes  Dr.  Miller.  "Psychic"  names,  but  explains 
nothing.  What  do  you  mean  by  it?  How  do  you 
do  it?  What  is  the  Power?  We  are  after  this.  I 
claim  it  is  THOUGHT.  Methods  may  be  number- 
ed by  millions.  It  is  "concentration,"  but  concen- 
tration of  what?  Concentration  ol  some  Power? 
What  is  the  power? 

As  to  the  nervousness,  that  would  come  from  the 
excitement  and  from  the  life  led  as  an  exhibitor; 
also  from  ignorance  in  using  the  Power,  not  to 
manifest  health  and  intelligence,  but  simply  to 
show  what  he  can  do.  When  he  shall  think  of  Use 
and  Health  with  his  exhibitions,  he  will  neither  be 
nervous  nor  fear  loss.  If  there  be  loss,  it  will  be 
because  he  fears  it. 

From  another  source,  I  find  this  statement  about 
Mack: 

On  the  scales  he  can  vary  his  weight  (123  Ibs.),  tipping  the 
scales  at  800  or  at  98.  In  the  Chicago  American  office,  he  de- 
fied the  strongest  person  there  to  lift  him  from  the  ground,  and 
no  amount  of  energy  seemed  able  to  raise  him. 

Scientists  have  studied  him  and  can  give  no  clear 
explanation.  One  great  Professor  thinks  it  a  form 
of  "nerve  resistance."  Which  is  as  clear  as  a  fog 


DISCOVERY.  ...  57 

to  obscure  but  not  to  reveal.  Try  THOUGHT, 
Professors,  and  declare  your  theories  of  gravity 
false  and  weight  to  be  merely  a  sensation' that  one 
need  not  feel  when  he  will  not. 

Similar  reports  of  the  Power  of  Thought  through 
concentration  come  to  us  concerning  Viggo  Lerche 
of  Alto  Pass,  111.  This  is  the  press  report  of  his 
manifestations : 

He  used  an  iron  poker,  several  feet  long  and  quite  heavy.  Stand- 
ing it  against  the  wall  at  an  angle  of  45  degrees,  he  seated  him- 
self a  few  feet  distant  and  focused  his  eyes  on  the  top  of  the 
poker.  Within  a  few  seconds,  it  began  trembling,  then  gradu- 
ally rose  to  a  perpendicular  position.  After  standing  a  moment, 
it  moved  toward  him  in  short  juinps. 

Mr.  Lerche  can  affect  any  wood  or  metal  object,  such  as  um- 
brellas or  canes,  in  the  same  way.  He  can  be  induced  to  exert 
his  strange  mental  power  only  a  short  time  before  going  to 
bed,  as  he  says  it  makes  him  deathly  sick  unless  he  can  take 
refuge  in  sleep. 

While  attending  a  Copenhagen  college  several  years  ago,  he 
accidentally  discovered  his  power.  He  was  sitting  on  the  lawn 
with  his  face  in  his  hands  and  his  eyes  on  a  small  stick  at  his 
feet,  lamenting  a  quarrel  he  had  had  with  a  schoolmate,  when 
suddenly  he  noticed  the  stick  wriggling.  Wondering  if  he  had 
gone  crazy,  he  rubbed  his  eyes,  took  his  bearings,  and  again 
looked  at  the  stick.  Again  it  showed  signs  of  life.  Then  he 
realized  that  he  had  been  endowed  with  a  wonderful  gift. 

Helen  Wilmans  says  of  this  in  Freedom: 
Of  course  I  cannot  be  sure  that  what  is  told  of  Viggo  Lerche  is 
true,  bnt  from  what  I  know  of  the  power  of  thought  and  of 
the  power  of  the  individual  to  transmit  his  thought  to  another 
person,  it  would  not  surprise  me  to  know  that  the  statement  is 
positively  true. 

It  has  been  noticed  that  in  treating  a  patient,  even  though  the 
healer  addresses  the  mind  of  the  patient,— the  thinking  part  of 
him — that  the  thought  he  sends  out  seems  to  enter  the  patient's 
body  first;  that  it  seems  to  make  its  impression  there  even  be- 
fore the  patient's  brain  perceives  that  trie  impression  has  been 
made. 


In  lull  accord  with  the  position  assumed  in  " Man's 
Greatest  Discovery,"  that  man  will  use  Thought, 


58  MAN'S  GREATEST 

or  Life,  as  a  motive  power,  is  this  extract  from  an 
article  in  St.  Louis  Post-Dispatch: 

Dr.  Charles  Tuckett,  a  retired  St.  Louis  Doctor,  is  exhibiting- 
in  his  home,  at  4563  North  Market  street,  the  most  extraordi- 
nary little  railway  in  the  city — a  railroad  whose  motive  power 
is  the  nervous  energy  of  the  human  body. 

Dr.  Tuckett  believes  a  time  is  coming  when  science  will  so  con- 
fine the  energy  in  the  human  system  that,  by  grasping  a  lever, 
a  man  may  run  his  automobile  with  the  life  force  that  is  in  him. 
To  illustrate  his  discovery  of  nervous  energy  as  a  motive  pow- 
er, Dr.  Tuckett  has  strung  a  copper  wire  in  his  home  and  has 
placed  upon  this  a  tiny  truck.  By  rubbing  his  hand  on  a  piece 
of  paper  and  hanging  it  on  the  truck,  he  can  pull  the  car  for- 
ward, or  back  it,  across  the  room  by  holding  his  hand  a  few 
feet  away,  the  principle  being  that  of  the  magnet. 


Experiments. 

From  the  many  reports  of  experiments,  the  follow- 
ing reports  are  selected: — 
Mrs.  M.  A.  Winans,  of  Kansas,  writes: 

I  have  helped  to  perform  that  experiment  in  September  NOW 
many  years  ago,  but  did  not  realize  where  the  power  lay.  Four 
girls  could  lift  a  heavy  man  with  ease  when  properly  done. 
That  is,  there  must  be  no  foolishness  nor  laughing  mixed  with  it. 

C.  H.  Doty  of  Juniata,  Neb.,  writes: 

When  I  was  a  boy,  somewhere  from  1837  to  1840,  we  perform- 
ed the  experiment  of  "blowing  each  other  up."  One 
would  lie  on  his  back  on  a  table  or  counter.  Several,  say  four 
or  eight,  would  stand  on  each  side  of  him  with  one  finger  ex- 
tended under  him.  Then  all  were  to  blow  a  long,  steady,  con- 
tinuous breath  upon  his  breast  until  we  felt  somewhat  light- 
headed. Then  we  raised  our  fingers  and  he  would  come  up 
with  us.  I  would  like  your  explanation. 

Here  is  the  explanation:    THOUGHT  IS  POWER. 
Power  can  be  applied  in  millions  of  ways. 
Onfa,  of  New  Mexico,  writes: 

A  sea  captain,  at  an  evening  party  in  San  Francisco,  gave  an 
illustration  of  what  he  termed  an  "Oriental  Trick."  He  se- 
lected six  young  ladies,  then  placed  himself  upon  the  floor  in  a 
rigid  condition,  and  placed  the  ladies,  one  at  his  head,  one  at 
feet,  and  two  on  each  side— one  at  elbow  and  knee.  They  were 


DISCOVERY.   ...  59 

then  commanded  to  lean  over,  each  placing  the  index  finger  of 
the  right  hand  under  the  points  mentioned.  The  order  was 
given  to  breathe  in  unison  and  to  lift  with  the  finger  with  the 
first  breath.  At  first  breath  the  ladies  raised  the  captain  level 
with  their  heads,  and  then  with  the  second  lifted  him  above 
their  heads  and  lowered  him  to  an  upright  position  by  first  re- 
moving the  finger  from  the  feet,  then  from  the  knees,  balancing 
him  for  a  moment  on  his  elbows  ere  his  feet  reached  the  floor. 
This  story  was  told  me  by  one  of  the  ladies  who  took  part  in 
the  experiment. 

I  quote  from  Edward  Everett  Kale's  book,  "Low- 
ell and  His  Friends,"  page  190,  this  remarkable 
reliable  case  of  Telepathy: 

The  person  who  was  the  recipient  of  the  message  tells  it  thus: 
I  spent  the  night  before  Commencement  on  a  lounge  in  Hollis 
21.  I  could  not  afterwards  remember  dreaming  of  anything 
in  particular;  but  as  I  woke  I  heard 

"And  what  they  dare  to  dream  of,  dare  to  die  for." 
Rather  good  sentiment,"  1  said  to  myself;   "it  seems  appropri- 
ate to  the  day"— then  just  dawning.     And  so  I  dropped  off 
again. 

The  dinner  was  spread  in  the  green.    <  My  seat 

was  just  about  the  middle.  Mr.  Lowell  was  about  under  the 
window  of  Hollis  21.  When  he  arose  he  waited  until  all  was 
quiet  before  he  commenced  reading.  (It  was  his  masterpiece, 
"The  Harvard  Commemoration  Ode.")  As  he  came  to  the 
words, 

"Their  higher  instincts  knew 
Those  love  her  best," — 

I  began  to  feel,  not  that  I  had  heard  this  before,  but  that  some- 
thing was  coming  that  was  familiar. 

"Who  to  themselves  are  true," 

went  on  the  reader.  "Hullo!"  I  said  to  myself,  "I  ought  to 
know  the  next  line." 

"And  what  they  dare"— 

"Yes,  but  it  isn't  going  to  rhyme,"  and  this  without  distinctly 
repeating  the  rest  of  the  line. 

But  when  he  observed,  "to  die  for,"  would  not  rhyme  with 
"True,"  Lowell  came  to  his  relief  by  saying: 

"And  what  they  dare  to  dream  of,  dare  to  do." 
Says  Mr.  Hale:   "So  well  authenicated  a  story  of  sympathy 
and  telepathy  seems  worth  repeating." 


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A  Lesson  in  Soul  Culture, 

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tion fills  this  demand.  It  is  for  progressive  people,  those 
who  want  something  GOOD  and  are  willing  to  pay  a 
legitimate  price  for  the  same.  Each  lesson  is  printed 
and  bound  separately  and  can  be  ordered  "one-at-a-time" 
style.  Mr.  Brown  has  had  25  years  of  experience  in  this 
line  of  work  and  has  seen  every  Principle  he  teaches 
DEMONSTRATED  both  in  his  own  and  in  the  lives  of 
others.  He  never  theorizes. 

The  knowledge  gained  from  these  lessons  saves  one  doctor 
bills,  failure  and  discontent,  and  insures  health,  success, 
and  happiness. 

This  is  an  exhaustive  course  of  instruction  in  Suggestion. 
IT  PLEASES  EVERYBODY.  It  covers  the  same  ground 
as  the  regular  course  taught  at  our  Soul  Culture  Institute 
for  which  we  charge  $25.  Terms:  $10  for  the  25  Lessons,, 
or  5oc  each,  with  a  personal  letter  from  Mr.  Brown  with 
each  lesson,  answering  all  points  not  understood. 

Mail  Course  in  ART  OF  LIVING. 

The  key  to  Healing  and  Self-Development  in  all  Spiritual: 
Gifts.  This  valuable  course  is  a  purely  scientific  appli- 
cation of  the  Principles  underlying  the  systems  of  "Men- 
tal," "Divine,"  and  "Christian"  Science,  and  all  other 
schools  of  Metaphysics.  It  practically  covers  the  funda- 
mental principles  of  science,  the  law  of  physics,  and  the 
dual  manifestations  of  the  one  substance  known  as  matter 
and  mind.  It  deals  with  Vibration,  Sensation,  Sugges- 
tion, Personal  Magnetism,  Thought  as  a  form  of  Energy, 
Telepathy,  Clairvoyance,  Mental  Healing,  how  to  be  and 
keep  well,  the  healing  power  of  Thought,  self-protection 
as  sensitives,  how  to*  cultivate  self-protection,  psychome- 
try,  inspiration,  etc.,  etc. 

This  course  includes  25  lessons,  each  bound  separately,. 
and  may  be  ordered  one  at  a  time  at  50  cents  each,  or  $10- 
for  the  entire  course.  These  lessons  are  the  very  best 
ever  put  out:  you  will  agree  with  us  when  you  see  any 
one  of  them.  Mr.  Brown  will  answer  one  letter  of  in- 
quiry about  each  lesson  without  extra  charge. 

For  testimonials  or  any  information,  address 

"NOW"    COMPANY, 
HENRY  HARRISON  BROWN,  Instructor, 
1437  Market  Street,  SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAI,. 


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